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1794

1794: Insurrection aboard the Jemmy, bound for Kingston (voyage 82007)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Kingston in 1794, the people aboard the Jemmy rose against the crew. They had been taken at Iles de Los.

The record gives the numbers as: 259 people were embarked; 237 were landed.

Captain: Pearson, Richard. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold in the Americas after disembarking slaves.”

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 82007