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1804

1804: Insurrection aboard the Neptune, bound for Montevideo (voyage 82924)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Montevideo in 1804, the people aboard the Neptune rose against the crew. They had been taken at Bonny.

The record gives the numbers as: 357 people were embarked; 349 were landed; 8 died on the crossing.

Captain: Phillips, James. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by Dutch – after embarkation of 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 82924