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1777

1777: Insurrection aboard the Bienfaisant (voyage 31052)

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On a slaving voyage in 1777, the people aboard the Bienfaisant rose against the crew. They had been taken at Malembo.

The record gives the numbers as: 112 people were embarked.

Captain: Jolly, Luc. 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 31052