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1768

1768: Insurrection aboard the Saint Nicolas, bound for Port-au-Prince (voyage 31554)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Port-au-Prince in 1768, the people aboard the Saint Nicolas rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 172 people were embarked; 129 were landed; 43 died on the crossing.

Captain: De l’Isle, Balai. Flag: France. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 31554