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1819

1819: Insurrection aboard the Amitié, bound for Cuba (voyage 34077)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cuba in 1819, the people aboard the Amitié rose against the crew. They had been taken at Rio Pongo.

The record gives the numbers as: 278 people were embarked; 246 were landed.

Captain: Christiaens, Louis. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “french proceedings initiated in France, unknown outcome.”

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 34077