Ship, nation, owners | Voyage identification number | 1688 |
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM | Yes | |
Vessel name | Camões | |
Flag | Portugal | |
Flag IMP | Portugal / Brazil | |
Place constructed | ||
Year constructed | ||
Place registered | ||
Year registered | ||
Rig | ||
Tonnage | ||
Standardized tonnage IMP | ||
Guns mounted | ||
Vessel owners | Blanco, Pedro | |
Voyage Outcome | Particular outcome of voyage | Court of Mixed Commission, Sierra Leone, condemned |
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP | Slaves disembarked in Americas | |
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP | British | |
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP | Original goal thwarted (human agency) | |
African resistance | ||
Voyage Itinerary | Place where voyage began IMP | Havana |
First place of slave purchase | Lagos, Onim | |
Second place of slave purchase | ||
Third place of slave purchase | ||
Principal place of slave purchase IMP | Lagos, Onim | |
Places of call before Atlantic crossing | ||
First place of slave landing | Nassau | |
Second place of slave landing | ||
Third place of slave landing | ||
Principal place of slave landing IMP | Bahamas, port unspecified | |
Place where voyage ended | ||
Region where voyage began IMP | Cuba | |
First region of slave purchase | Bight of Benin | |
Second region of slave purchase | ||
Third region of slave purchase | ||
Principal region of slave purchase IMP | Bight of Benin | |
First region of slave landing | Bahamas | |
Second region of slave landing | ||
Third region of slave landing | ||
Principal region of slave landing IMP | Bahamas | |
Region where voyage ended | ||
Voyage Dates | Year arrived with slaves IMP | 1838 |
Date voyage began | 1837-09-19 | |
Date trade began in Africa | ||
Date vessel departed Africa | 1838-03-13 | |
Date vessel arrived with slaves | 1838-05-07 | |
Date vessel departed for homeport | ||
Date voyage completed | ||
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP | 230 | |
Middle passage (days) IMP | 55 | |
Captain and Crew | Captain's name | Silva, José Gonçalves da |
Crew at voyage outset | 35 | |
Crew at first landing of slaves | ||
Crew deaths during voyage | ||
Slave (numbers) | Number of slaves intended at first place of purchase | |
Slaves carried from first port of purchase | ||
Slaves carried from second port of purchase | ||
Slaves carried from third port of purchase | ||
Total slaves embarked | ||
Total slaves embarked IMP | 598 | |
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing | 569 | |
Number of slaves disembarked at first place of landing | ||
Number of slaves disembarked at second place of landing | ||
Number of slaves disembarked at third place of landing | ||
Total slaves disembarked IMP | 569 | |
Slave (characteristics) | Percentage men IMP | |
Percentage women IMP | ||
Percentage boys IMP | ||
Percentage girls IMP | ||
Percentage male IMP | ||
Percentage children IMP | ||
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP | ||
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP | ||
Mortality rate IMP | ||
Source | Sources | PP,1845,XLIX:593-633: Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers: 1777, Accounts and Papers, No 9 1788, XXII 1789, XXIV, XXV, XXVI 1790, XXIX, XXX, XXXI 1790-91, XXXIV 1792, XXXV 1795-96, XLII 1798-99, XLVIII 1799 XLVIII 1801-2, IV 1803-4, X 1806, XII 1813-14, XII 1816, VII 1823, XIX 1825, XXVII, XXIX 1826, XXIX 1826-7, XXII, XXVI 1828, XXVI 1829, XXVI 1830, X 1831, XIX 1831-32, XLVII 1842, XLIV 1845,XLIX 1847-8, XXII 1852-3, XXXIX LtoSofN,Reel103,Lewis,38.01.24,enc: National Archives (Washington, DC, USA) RG45, M89A, Letters Received by the Secretary of the Navy From Commanding Officers of Squadrons, 1841-1886, Rolls 1-200 FO84/253,Ouseley,38.07.07,enc: British Hational Archives (Kew) IUP,ST,17/A/74-76: Great Britain, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vols. 1-90 (Shannon, 1969-74). Bethell,126: Bethell, Leslie, The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade (Cambridge, 1970). Adderley,95: Adderley, Roseanne Marion, 'New Negroes from Africa’: Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth Century Caribbean (Bloomington, IN, 2006) Dalleo,24: Dalleo, Peter D.,"Africans in the Caribbean: A Preliminary Reassessment of Recaptives in the Bahamas, 1811-1860," Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society, 6 (1984): 15-24. |