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1737

1737: Insurrection aboard the Phénix (voyage 30304)

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On a slaving voyage in 1737, the people aboard the Phénix rose against the crew. They had been taken at Badagry.

The record gives the numbers as: 480 people were embarked; 409 were landed.

Captain: Nègre, Joseph. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, after embarkation of slaves or during slaving.”

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 30304