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1691: Insurrection aboard the Hester and Mary, bound for Jamaica (voyage 21261)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Jamaica in 1691, the people aboard the Hester and Mary rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 243 people were embarked; 195 were landed.

Captain: Ransom, Christoph. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “left home port, no further record.”

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 21261