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1859

1859: Insurrection aboard an unnamed American ship, bound for Cardenas (voyage 4313)

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On a slaving voyage that ended at Cardenas in 1859, the people aboard an unnamed American ship rose against the crew. They had been taken at Mozambique.

The record gives the numbers as: 1,068 people were embarked; 70 were landed; 998 died on the crossing.

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 4313