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1812

1812: Insurrection aboard the Feliz Eugênia, bound for Rio de Janeiro (voyage 7071)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Rio de Janeiro in 1812, the people aboard the Feliz Eugênia rose against the crew. They had been taken at Benguela.

The record gives the numbers as: 430 people were embarked; 385 were landed; 45 died on the crossing.

Captain: Figueiredo, Antônio Peres de. Flag: Portugal / Brazil. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “voyage completed as intended.”

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 7071