1742: Insurrection aboard the Flore, bound for Martinique (voyage 32964)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Martinique in 1742, the people aboard the Flore rose against the crew. They had been taken at Whydah.

The record gives the numbers as: 410 people were embarked; 367 were landed; 43 died on the crossing.

Captain: Touffreville, J. le Roux de. Flag: France. 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.