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1766

1766: Insurrection aboard the Adelaïde de Puysegor, bound for Martinique (voyage 30804)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Martinique in 1766, the people aboard the Adelaïde de Puysegor rose against the crew. They had been taken at West Central Africa and St. Helena.

The record gives the numbers as: 220 people were embarked; 161 were landed; 59 died on the crossing.

Captain: Massey de Breban. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, after disembarkation.”

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 30804