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1822

1822: Attack from shore on the Heureuse Etoile (a) Dichosa Estrella, bound for Freetown (voyage 34319)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Freetown in 1822, the Heureuse Etoile (a) Dichosa Estrella was attacked from the shore. The people aboard had been taken at Grand Bassa.

The record gives the numbers as: 34 people were embarked; 29 were landed; 5 died on the crossing.

Captain: Larose, Domingo Laxos Calias. Flag: France. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “court of Mixed Commission, 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 34319