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1768

1768: Insurrection aboard the Africa (voyage 17686)

African

On a slaving voyage in 1768, the people aboard the Africa rose against the crew. They had been taken at Calabar.

The record gives the numbers as: 310 people were embarked; 262 were landed.

Captain: Watkins, William. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed – unspecified.”

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 17686