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1708

1708: Insurrection aboard the Pindar Gally, bound for Jamaica (voyage 9755)

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

The record gives the numbers as: 300 people were embarked; 284 were landed; 16 died on the crossing.

Captain: Taylor, John. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 9755