Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 36905
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Semiramis
Flag U.S.A.
Flag IMP U.S.A.
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered Bristol (RI)
Year registered
Rig Fragata
Tonnage 163
Standardized tonnage IMP 163
Guns mounted
Vessel owners D'Wolf, James
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 Rhode Island, port unspecified
First place of slave purchase Cape Mount (Cape Grand Mount)
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Cape Mount (Cape Grand Mount)
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Havana
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Havana
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP Rhode Island
First region of slave purchase Windward Coast
Second region of slave purchase
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Windward Coast
First region of slave landing Cuba
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Cuba
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1807
Date voyage began 1806-05-06
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1807-05-14
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 373
Middle passage (days) IMP 74
Captain and Crew Captain's name Slocum, Charles
Collins
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 181
Total slaves embarked IMP 181
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 66.2%
Percentage women IMP 33.8%
Percentage boys IMP
Percentage girls IMP
Percentage male IMP 66.2%
Percentage children IMP 51.3%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 23
Mortality rate IMP 12.7%
Source Sources ANC,ML, 3518:

Archivo Nacional de Cuba, Miscelanea de Libros, Havana, Cuba


Coughtry, 241-85:

Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981).


AGI, Santo Domingo 2207:

Archivo General de Indias (Sevilla)


Klein,Havana dataset:

University of Wisconsin Library (Madison, Wisconsin, USA) Klein, Havana data-set, 1790-1820


Donnan,IV,523:

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


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