1768: Insurrection aboard the Esther, bound for British Caribbean, colony unspecified (voyage 77953)

On a slaving voyage that ended at British Caribbean, colony unspecified in 1768, the people aboard the Esther rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 142 people were embarked; 129 were landed; 13 died on the crossing.

Captain: Dann, Robert. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

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.