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1783

1783: Insurrection aboard the Wasp, bound for Jamaica (voyage 17915)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Jamaica in 1783, the people aboard the Wasp rose against the crew. They had been taken at Calabar.

The record gives the numbers as: 225 people were embarked; 130 were landed; 95 died on the crossing.

Captain: Bowen, Richard. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

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 17915