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1720

1720: Insurrection aboard the Whidah, bound for Kingston (voyage 76603)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Kingston in 1720, the people aboard the Whidah rose against the crew. They had been taken at Cape Coast Castle.

The record gives the numbers as: 517 people were embarked; 500 were landed; 17 died on the crossing.

Captain: Prince, Lawrence. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

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 76603