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1759

1759: A rising planned aboard the Upton, bound for Annapolis (voyage 90772)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Annapolis in 1759, the people aboard the Upton planned a rising that the crew discovered before it broke. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 180 people were embarked; 205 were landed.

Captain: Birch, Thomas. Flag: Great Britain. 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 90772