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1807

1807: Shore attack on the boats of the Nancy, bound for Tortola (voyage 36948)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Tortola in 1807, the Nancy had its boats attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Senegal.

The record gives the numbers as: 73 people were embarked; 70 were landed; 3 died on the crossing.

Captain: Viall, Joshua. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “vice-Admiralty Court, Tortola, condemned.”

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 36948