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1741

1741: Insurrection aboard the Africaanse Galei, bound for Suriname (voyage 10411)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Suriname in 1741, the people aboard the Africaanse Galei rose against the crew. They had been taken at Cape Lahou.

The record gives the numbers as: 232 people were embarked; 187 were landed; 45 died on the crossing.

Captain: Vendevijle, Pieter. Flag: Netherlands. 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 10411