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1796

1796: Insurrection aboard the Espera Dinheiro, bound for Pernambuco (voyage 8119)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Pernambuco in 1796, the people aboard the Espera Dinheiro rose against the crew. They had been taken at St. Paul de Loanda.

The record gives the numbers as: 22 people were embarked; 20 were landed.

Flag: Portugal / Brazil. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “abandoned or condemned for unseaworthiness in 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 8119