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1730

1730: Insurrection aboard the William (voyage 25157)

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On a slaving voyage in 1730, the people aboard the William rose against the crew. They had been taken at Anomabu, Adja, Agga.

The record gives the numbers as: 95 people were embarked; 82 were landed.

Captain: Jump, Peter. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves, recaptured and landed slaves in the Americas.”

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 25157