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1808

1808: Insurrection aboard the Leander, bound for Charleston (voyage 37311)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Charleston in 1808, the people aboard the Leander rose against the crew. They had been taken at Gambia.

The record gives the numbers as: 68 people were embarked; 54 were landed.

Captain: Vincent, John. Flag: USA. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by slaves, recaptured and landed slaves 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 37311