1865: Insurrection aboard the Gato, bound for Isla de Pinas (voyage 4394)

On a slaving voyage that ended at Isla de Pinas in 1865, the people aboard the Gato rose against the crew. They had been taken at a port the record does not name.

The record gives the numbers as: 152 people were embarked; 145 were landed; 7 died on the crossing.

Flag: Spain / Uruguay. Recorded outcome, in the database’s words: “captured by Spanish – 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.