1805: Attack from shore on the Fly, bound for Senegambia and offshore Atlantic (voyage 39097)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Senegambia and offshore Atlantic in 1805, the Fly was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Senegal.

The record gives the numbers as: 70 people were embarked; 24 were landed; 46 died on the crossing.

Captain: Steward. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, after embarkation of slaves or during slaving.”

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.