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1710

1710: Insurrection aboard the Fredericus Quartus (a) Frederick IV, bound for Portobelo (voyage 35158)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Portobelo in 1710, the people aboard the Fredericus Quartus (a) Frederick IV rose against the crew. They had been taken at Christiansborg.

The record gives the numbers as: 433 people were embarked; 374 were landed.

Captain: Fijfe, Dirk. Flag: Denmark / Baltic. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, after disembarkation.”

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 35158