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1718

1718: Insurrection aboard the Samuel, bound for Barbados (voyage 76500)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Barbados in 1718, the people aboard the Samuel rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sierra Leone estuary.

The record gives the numbers as: 133 people were embarked; 119 were landed.

Captain: Longbotham, Edmund. 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 76500