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1565

1565: Insurrection aboard the Santo Antonio, bound for New Spain (voyage 28058)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at New Spain in 1565, the people aboard the Santo Antonio rose against the crew. They had been taken at Portuguese Guinea.

The record gives the numbers as: 359 people were embarked; 287 were landed; 102 died on the crossing.

Captain: Alvarez, Pedro. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

Resistance is recorded only where a surviving document mentions it. The 571 such acts in the record are a floor. Silence in that column is silence in the archive. It says nothing about calm on the ship.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 28058