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1764

1764: Shore attack on the boats of the Pocock, bound for Havana (voyage 25071)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Havana in 1764, the Pocock had its boats attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Cape Coast Castle.

The record gives the numbers as: 100 people were embarked; 85 were landed.

Captain: Rhodes, Wm. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

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 25071