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1786

1786: Insurrection aboard the Christiansborg, bound for St. Croix (voyage 35042)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at St. Croix in 1786, the people aboard the Christiansborg rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gold Coast.

The record gives the numbers as: 452 people were embarked; 406 were landed; 46 died on the crossing.

Captain: Berg, Jens Jensen. Flag: Denmark / Baltic. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

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 35042