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1762

1762: Insurrection aboard the Phoenix (voyage 75976)

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On a slaving voyage in 1762, the people aboard the Phoenix rose against the crew. They had been taken at Cape Coast Castle.

The record gives the numbers as: 332 people were embarked.

Captain: McGachen, Wm. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, after embarkation of slaves or during slaving.”

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 75976