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1708

1708: Insurrection aboard the Whidah Merchant, bound for Cape Coast Castle (voyage 20905)

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

The record gives the numbers as: 237 people were embarked.

Captain: Owen. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “condemned – after embarkation of slaves.”

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 20905