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1744

1744: Insurrection aboard the Baskensburg, bound for Essequibo (voyage 10455)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Essequibo in 1744, the people aboard the Baskensburg rose against the crew. They had been taken at Cabinda.

The record gives the numbers as: 293 people were embarked; 223 were landed.

Captain: Vos, Hendrik de. Flag: Netherlands. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold in the Americas after disembarking slaves.”

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 10455