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1755

1755: Attack from shore on the Belle Judith, bound for Benin (voyage 30717)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Benin in 1755, the Belle Judith was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Benin.

The record gives the numbers as: 242 people were embarked; 242 were landed.

Captain: Chaussée, Olivier. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “cut off by Africans from shore, 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 30717