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San Pietro island, Carloforte. Madonna of the Slave is a dark wooden statue of the Virgin Mary probably a figurehead, found by a tabarchine slave in Nabeul in Tunisia. Since then it was venerated by the Carlofortini slaves and after their liberation held in an oratory of Carloforte. In the 18th century the then-uninhabited San Pietro was colonized by people of Ligurian language and ethnicity, coming from the Republic of Genoa's colony at Tabarka after it had been taken over by the Bey of Tunisia. Today most of the population has retained a variant of Genoese dialect, called Tabarchino,

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San Pietro island, Carloforte. Madonna of the Slave is a dark wooden statue of the Virgin Mary probably a figurehead, found by a tabarchine slave in Nabeul in Tunisia. Since then it was venerated by the Carlofortini slaves and after their liberation held in an oratory of Carloforte. In the 18th century the then-uninhabited San Pietro was colonized by people of Ligurian language and ethnicity, coming from the Republic of Genoa's colony at Tabarka after it had been taken over by the Bey of Tunisia. Today most of the population has retained a variant of Genoese dialect, called Tabarchino,