Branca Bagnara, filza 19, series II, nr. 128b
life insurance contracts for pregnant enslaved women
The slaveholder named Caterina, wife of the cabinet-maker named Tommaso de Petrafracca, purchases insurance against the risk of death from childbirth the underwriter named Antonio Ittaliano for an enslaved woman named Maddalena, who is approximately 21 years of age and pregnant for about five months, for 120 Genoese florins. The term of the insurance is five months. The contract has extensive water damage so there are missing details about the witnesses.