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1850

1850: Insurrection aboard the Aventureiro, bound for St. Helena (voyage 4031)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at St. Helena in 1850, the people aboard the Aventureiro rose against the crew. They had been taken at Nova Redonda.

The record gives the numbers as: 455 people were embarked; 436 were landed; 19 died on the crossing.

Captain: Câmara, João Moreira da. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “vice-Admiralty Court, St.Helena, 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 4031