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1714

1714: Insurrection aboard the Abraham and Isaac, bound for Portugal (voyage 98843)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Portugal in 1714, the people aboard the Abraham and Isaac rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gold Coast.

The record gives the numbers as: 195 people were embarked; 80 were landed.

Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “destroyed, lost or sold as result of slave rebellion.”

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 98843