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1758

1758: Attack from shore on the Ann and Betty, bound for Virginia (voyage 90746)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Virginia in 1758, the Ann and Betty was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Windward Coast.

The record gives the numbers as: 139 people were embarked; 123 were landed.

Captain: Nichols, Timothy. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “cut off by Africans from shore. Recaptured and landed slaves in 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 90746