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1744

1744: Insurrection aboard the Mercure, bound for Martinique (voyage 30497)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Martinique in 1744, the people aboard the Mercure rose against the crew. They had been taken at Whydah.

The record gives the numbers as: 500 people were embarked; 416 were landed; 84 died on the crossing.

Captain: Armés, Yves. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by British – 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 30497