1765: Insurrection aboard the Sally, bound for Antigua (voyage 36299)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Antigua in 1765, the people aboard the Sally rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 142 people were embarked; 92 were landed; 50 died on the crossing.

Captain: Hopkins, Esek. Flag: USA. 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.