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1740

1740: Insurrection aboard the Expedition, bound for Barbados (voyage 76943)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Barbados in 1740, the people aboard the Expedition rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 190 people were embarked; 90 were landed; 100 died on the crossing.

Captain: Bruce, James. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – 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 76943