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1761

1761: Insurrection aboard the Vrouw Johanna Cores, bound for Curaçao (voyage 11116)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Curaçao in 1761, the people aboard the Vrouw Johanna Cores rose against the crew. They had been taken at Malembo.

The record gives the numbers as: 381 people were embarked; 301 were landed; 80 died on the crossing.

Captain: Tuijneman, Jan. Flag: Netherlands. 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 11116