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1733

1733: Attack from shore on the Finch, bound for Lisbon (voyage 76824)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Lisbon in 1733, the Finch was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 75 people were embarked; 64 were landed.

Captain: Coffin, Matthew. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “bought at least one slave in Africa – 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 76824