1686: Attack from shore on the Good Fellowship, bound for Barbados (voyage 9848)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Barbados in 1686, the Good Fellowship was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Ardra.

The record gives the numbers as: 400 people were embarked; 246 were landed; 154 died on the crossing.

Captain: Payne, Silvanus. Flag: Great Britain. 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.