Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 35029
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name General Huth
Flag Denmark
Flag IMP Denmark / Baltic
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered Denmark, port unspecified
Year registered
Rig Ship
Tonnage
Standardized tonnage IMP
Guns mounted
Vessel owners
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP Slaves disembarked in Americas
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP Not captured
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP Delivered slaves for original owners
African resistance
Voyage Itinerary Place where voyage began IMP
First place of slave purchase Windward + Ivory + Gold + Benin
Second place of slave purchase Gold Coast, port unspecified
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Gold Coast, port unspecified
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Charleston
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Charleston
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP
First region of slave purchase Other Africa
Second region of slave purchase Gold Coast
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Gold Coast
First region of slave landing South Carolina
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP South Carolina
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1785
Date voyage began
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1785-07-04
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP
Middle passage (days) IMP
Captain and Crew Captain's name Koperholt
Crew at voyage outset
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 260
Total slaves embarked IMP 260
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 158
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 158
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 27.8%
Percentage women IMP 24.7%
Percentage boys IMP 22.2%
Percentage girls IMP 25.3%
Percentage male IMP 50.0%
Percentage children IMP 47.5%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 102
Mortality rate IMP 39.0%
Source Sources Green-Pedersen,186-93:

Green-Pedersen, Svend E.,"The Scope and Structure of the Danish Negro Slave Trade," Scandinavian Economic History Review, 19 (1971): 149-97.


Donnan,IV,477:

Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930)


T70/1553:

British National Archives (Kew)


McMillin: McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert.