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1853

1853: Insurrection aboard an unnamed Spanish or Uruguayan ship, bound for Cabanas (voyage 4162)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cabanas in 1853, the people aboard an unnamed Spanish or Uruguayan ship rose against the crew. They had been taken at Mozambique.

The record gives the numbers as: 1,350 people were embarked; 1,150 were landed; 200 died on the crossing.

Captain: Capo, Antônio. Flag: Spain / Uruguay. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “shipwrecked or destroyed, after disembarkation.”

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 4162