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1759

1759: Insurrection aboard the Shark, bound for Jamaica (voyage 90727)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Jamaica in 1759, the people aboard the Shark rose against the crew. They had been taken at Anomabu, Adja, Agga.

The record gives the numbers as: 328 people were embarked; 330 were landed.

Captain: Lowe, James. 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 90727