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1806

1806: Attack from shore on the Frederick, bound for Demerara (voyage 81511)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Demerara in 1806, the Frederick was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Cape Coast Castle.

The record gives the numbers as: 277 people were embarked; 249 were landed.

Captain: McDonald, James. Flag: Great Britain. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “sold slaves in Americas – subsequent fate unknown.”

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 81511