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1727

1727: Insurrection aboard the Hester and Jane (voyage 26106)

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On a slaving voyage in 1727, the people aboard the Hester and Jane rose against the crew. They had been taken at West Central Africa and St. Helena.

The record gives the numbers as: 240 people were embarked.

Captain: Bond, Peter. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “destroyed, lost or sold as result of slave rebellion.”

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 26106