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1844

1844: Insurrection aboard the Kentucky, bound for Cabo Frio (voyage 3433)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cabo Frio in 1844, the people aboard the Kentucky rose against the crew. They had been taken at Sofala.

The record gives the numbers as: 543 people were embarked; 450 were landed.

Captain: Douglas. Flag: USA. 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 3433