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1683

1683: Insurrection aboard the Trompeuse, bound for St. Thomas (voyage 21557)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at St. Thomas in 1683, the people aboard the Trompeuse rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 27 people were embarked; 22 were landed.

Captain: Hamlin, Jean. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by British – after disembarkation.”

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 21557