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1754

1754: Insurrection aboard the York, bound for New York (voyage 25021)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at New York in 1754, the people aboard the York rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 35 people were embarked; 26 were landed; 9 died on the crossing.

Captain: Mercier, Wm. Flag: USA. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 25021