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1744

1744: Insurrection aboard the Duc de Bretagne (voyage 31477)

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On a slaving voyage in 1744, the people aboard the Duc de Bretagne rose against the crew. They had been taken at Little Popo.

The record gives the numbers as: 355 people were embarked; 350 were landed; 5 died on the crossing.

Captain: De La Bretonnière, Chevalier. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “condemned – Americas after disembarkation.”

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 31477