1767: Insurrection aboard the Début, bound for Saint-Marc (voyage 32249)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Saint-Marc in 1767, the people aboard the Début rose against the crew. They had been taken at Loango.

The record gives the numbers as: 243 people were embarked; 233 were landed; 10 died on the crossing.

Captain: Latouche, Th. Flag: France. 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.