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1761

1761: Insurrection aboard the Agnes, bound for French Caribbean, colony unspecified (voyage 25327)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at French Caribbean, colony unspecified in 1761, the people aboard the Agnes rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gold Coast.

The record gives the numbers as: 80 people were embarked; 70 were landed.

Captain: Nicholls, John. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by the French – after embarkation of slaves.”

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 25327