Sample collection on women migrants at the Centre des Archives diplomatiques de Nantes below
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Collection: Procedura Penale Contra Giovanna Tellini e Biagio Veglione | Criminal proceedings against Giovanna Tellini and Biagio Veglione (Tunisia: 1868)
Description: Criminal proceedings against an Italian woman and man in Tunis accused of criminal activity. During her testimony, Giovanna Tellini describes her origins in Italy, her social circumstances as a single immigrant woman in Tunis, and her business partnership with another unmarried woman, Annetta Barbera, who was an Algerian-born Spanish citizen.
Archive address: 17 Rue du Casterneau, 44000 Nantes, France
Reference number: Agenzia e Consolato Generale di S. M. Il Re’d Italia a Tunisi, anno 1868, no. 31, Procedura Penale Contra Giovanna Tellini e Biagio Veglione. In sous-série, Tunisie, premier versement, carton 381, “correspondence entre le consulat français et les consuls étrangers à Tunis.
Links: Visit the Centre des Archives diplomatiques de Nantes’s website.
Publications: Julia Clancy-Smith, “Locating Women as Migrants in Nineteenth-Century Tunis,” in Contesting Women: Finding Women in the Sources, ed. Nupur Chaudhuri, Sherry J. Katz, and Mary Elizabeth Perry (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010), pp. 35–55.
Contributor: Katelin Parsons