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1765

1765: Insurrection aboard the Success, bound for New York (voyage 25352)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at New York in 1765, the people aboard the Success rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sierra Leone estuary.

The record gives the numbers as: 83 people were embarked; 69 were landed.

Captain: Richards, Roger. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 25352