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1840

1840: Insurrection aboard the Jesús María, bound for Cuba (voyage 2071)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cuba in 1840, the people aboard the Jesús María rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sherbro.

The record gives the numbers as: 278 people were embarked; 246 were landed; 32 died on the crossing.

Captain: Ruíz, Lorenzo. Flag: Spain / Uruguay. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “court of Mixed Commission, Havana, 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 2071