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1776

1776: Attack from shore on the Grue, bound for Senegambia and offshore Atlantic (voyage 31036)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Senegambia and offshore Atlantic in 1776, the Grue was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Senegambia and offshore Atlantic.

The record gives the numbers as: 169 people were embarked; 150 were landed.

Captain: Giraud, François. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “cut off by Africans from shore, ship did not reach the Americas.”

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 31036