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1748

1748: Insurrection aboard the Thomas and Ellinor (a) Thomas and Ellen (voyage 90233)

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On a slaving voyage in 1748, the people aboard the Thomas and Ellinor (a) Thomas and Ellen rose against the crew. They had been taken at Windward Coast.

The record gives the numbers as: 240 people were embarked.

Captain: Rawlinson, Thomas. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves: ship did not reach the Americas.”

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 90233