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1722

1722: Insurrection aboard the Excellent, bound for Léogane (voyage 30165)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Léogane in 1722, the people aboard the Excellent rose against the crew. They had been taken at Whydah.

The record gives the numbers as: 205 people were embarked; 84 were landed; 121 died on the crossing.

Captain: Denier, Jean. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 30165