1722: Attack from shore on the Levrette, bound for Martinique (voyage 30169)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Martinique in 1722, the Levrette was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 109 people were embarked; 84 were landed; 25 died on the crossing.

Captain: Fontaine, Adrien. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “condemned – Americas 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.