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1708

1708: Insurrection aboard the Mary, bound for Saint John (voyage 99010)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Saint John in 1708, the people aboard the Mary rose against the crew. They had been taken at Cape Coast Castle.

The record gives the numbers as: 273 people were embarked; 236 were landed.

Captain: Hooper, Henry. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “bought at least one slave in Africa – 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 99010