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1757

1757: Cut off: the Willy (voyage 90659)

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On a slaving voyage in 1757, the Willy was cut off, and the record does not say by whom or how. The people aboard had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 70 people were embarked.

Captain: Clark, William. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves: 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 90659