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1658

1658: Shore attack on the boats of the S Pieter, bound for Buenos Aires (voyage 11806)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Buenos Aires in 1658, the S Pieter had its boats attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at New Calabar.

The record gives the numbers as: 259 people were embarked; 207 were landed.

Captain: Berg, Jacob Jansen van de (a) Japon. Flag: Netherlands. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

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 11806