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1768

1768: Insurrection aboard the Saint Pierre, bound for Cayenne (voyage 30856)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cayenne in 1768, the people aboard the Saint Pierre rose against the crew. They had been taken at Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea Islands.

The record gives the numbers as: 304 people were embarked; 168 were landed; 136 died on the crossing.

Captain: Ollivier, J. 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.

Source SlaveVoyages, Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, voyage 30856