1717: Insurrection aboard the Union, bound for Léogane (voyage 30086)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Léogane in 1717, the people aboard the Union rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 160 people were embarked; 139 were landed; 21 died on the crossing.

Captain: Viau, Jean. Flag: France. 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.