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1803

1803: Insurrection aboard the Eliza, bound for Cayenne (voyage 33664)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cayenne in 1803, the people aboard the Eliza rose against the crew. They had been taken at Senegal.

The record gives the numbers as: 138 people were embarked; 136 were landed; 2 died on the crossing.

Captain: Vilaine, Marc. Flag: France. 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 33664