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1759

1759: Insurrection aboard the Perfect, bound for Freetown (voyage 90744)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Freetown in 1759, the people aboard the Perfect rose against the crew. They had been taken at Mano.

The record gives the numbers as: 104 people were embarked; 104 were landed.

Captain: Potter, William. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “destroyed, lost or sold as result of slave rebellion.”

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 90744