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1743

1743: Insurrection aboard the Notre Dame de Bonne Garde, bound for Cap Français (voyage 30455)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cap Français in 1743, the people aboard the Notre Dame de Bonne Garde rose against the crew. They had been taken at Anomabu, Adja, Agga.

The record gives the numbers as: 205 people were embarked; 177 were landed.

Captain: Fessard, Etienne. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 30455