1751: Insurrection aboard the Samuel Marie, bound for Martinique (voyage 31850)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Martinique in 1751, the people aboard the Samuel Marie rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sierra Leone estuary.

The record gives the numbers as: 111 people were embarked; 59 were landed; 52 died on the crossing.

Captain: Maginel, J-B. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

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.