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1748

1748: Insurrection aboard the Emelia (voyage 36986)

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On a slaving voyage in 1748, the people aboard the Emelia rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 123 people were embarked.

Captain: Burdet. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves, unknown outcome.”

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 36986