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1764

1764: Insurrection aboard the Phénix, bound for Saint-Domingue (voyage 30764)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Saint-Domingue in 1764, the people aboard the Phénix rose against the crew. They had been taken at Bissau.

The record gives the numbers as: 223 people were embarked; 199 were landed; 24 died on the crossing.

Captain: Mary, Joseph. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “condemned – unspecified.”

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 30764