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1771

1771: Attack from shore on the Polly (voyage 78045)

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On a slaving voyage in 1771, the Polly was attacked from the shore.

Captain: Walsh, Hugh (a) Naish. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, before slaves embarked.”

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 78045