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1750

1750: Insurrection aboard the Sultane, bound for Cap Français (voyage 32211)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cap Français in 1750, the people aboard the Sultane rose against the crew. They had been taken at Senegambia and offshore Atlantic.

The record gives the numbers as: 576 people were embarked; 511 were landed.

Captain: Avrillon. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

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 32211