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1737

1737: Insurrection aboard the Prince of Orange, bound for St. Kitts (voyage 16873)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at St. Kitts in 1737, the people aboard the Prince of Orange rose against the crew. They had been taken at Bonny.

The record gives the numbers as: 360 people were embarked; 273 were landed.

Captain: Bird, Japhet. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 16873