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1769

1769: Insurrection aboard the Union (voyage 30896)

African

On a slaving voyage in 1769, the people aboard the Union rose against the crew. They had been taken at Scarcies.

The record gives the numbers as: 66 people were embarked.

Captain: Ruellau, J-L. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “abandoned and/or sold off Africa.”

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 30896