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1769

1769: Insurrection aboard the Jenny (a) Nancy, bound for Charleston (voyage 91474)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Charleston in 1769, the people aboard the Jenny (a) Nancy rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sierra Leone estuary.

The record gives the numbers as: 218 people were embarked; 178 were landed.

Captain: Webster, Richard. Flag: Great Britain. 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 91474