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1756

1756: Insurrection aboard the Drie Gezusters, bound for Suriname (voyage 10527)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Suriname in 1756, the people aboard the Drie Gezusters rose against the crew. They had been taken at Windward Coast.

The record gives the numbers as: 228 people were embarked; 212 were landed; 16 died on the crossing.

Captain: Stam, Maarten. Flag: Netherlands. 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 10527