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1739

1739: Insurrection aboard the Princess Carolina, bound for a port the record does not name (voyage 78802)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at a port the record does not name in 1739, the people aboard the Princess Carolina rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 116 people were embarked; 99 were landed.

Captain: Johnson, William. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves: ship did not reach 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 78802