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1788

1788: Insurrection aboard the Aimable Louise (voyage 32756)

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On a slaving voyage in 1788, the people aboard the Aimable Louise rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 114 people were embarked.

Captain: Doré, Isaac-Fr. Flag: France. 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 32756