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1796

1796: Insurrection aboard the Liberty, bound for Savannah (voyage 36627)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Savannah in 1796, the people aboard the Liberty rose against the crew. They had been taken at Bance Island (Ben’s Island).

The record gives the numbers as: 104 people were embarked; 104 were landed.

Captain: Potter, Abijah. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

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 36627