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1761

1761: Three or more went overboard from the Philadelphia, bound for Suriname (voyage 10940)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Suriname in 1761, the people aboard the Philadelphia went over the side, or were recorded missing. They had been taken at Cape Lahou.

The record gives the numbers as: 302 people were embarked; 288 were landed; 14 died on the crossing.

Captain: Menkenveld, 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 10940