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1810

1810: Insurrection aboard the Zaragozano, bound for Freetown (voyage 7551)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Freetown in 1810, the people aboard the Zaragozano rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sherbro.

The record gives the numbers as: 131 people were embarked; 118 were landed.

Captain: Dolz, Juan Norberto. Flag: Spain / Uruguay. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “vice-Admiralty Court, Sierra Leone, 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 7551