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1768

1768: Attack from shore on the Indian Prince (voyage 17700)

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On a slaving voyage in 1768, the Indian Prince was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands.

The record gives the numbers as: 276 people were embarked.

Captain: Lambert, John. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “cut off by Africans from shore, ship did not reach the Americas.”

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 17700