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1772

1772: Insurrection aboard the Fancy, bound for São Tomé (voyage 91862)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at São Tomé in 1772, the people aboard the Fancy rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gabon.

The record gives the numbers as: 29 people were embarked; 26 were landed; 3 died on the crossing.

Captain: Trescott, William. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by Portuguese – after embarkation of slaves.”

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 91862