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1791

1791: Insurrection aboard the Sally (voyage 36573)

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On a slaving voyage in 1791, the people aboard the Sally rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 53 people were embarked; 44 were landed.

Captain: Taber, Jeremiah. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “bought at least one slave in Africa – 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 36573