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1785

1785: Insurrection aboard an unnamed American ship, bound for Bristol (voyage 25045)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Bristol in 1785, the people aboard an unnamed American ship rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 18 people were embarked; 15 were landed.

Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves: 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 25045