1737: Insurrection aboard the Manchester, bound for Jamaica (voyage 16866)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Jamaica in 1737, the people aboard the Manchester rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 271 people were embarked; 217 were landed; 40 died on the crossing.

Captain: Watkins, John. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

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.