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1785

1785: Insurrection aboard the Neptunus (voyage 10890)

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On a slaving voyage in 1785, the people aboard the Neptunus rose against the crew. They had been taken at Elmina.

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

Captain: Vervenne, Cornelis. Flag: Netherlands. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “destroyed, lost or sold as result of slave rebellion.”

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 10890