Ship, nation, owners | Voyage identification number | 36948 |
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM | Yes | |
Vessel name | Nancy | |
Flag | U.S.A. | |
Flag IMP | U.S.A. | |
Place constructed | Pennsylvania, port unspecified | |
Year constructed | ||
Place registered | Newport | |
Year registered | ||
Rig | Schooner | |
Tonnage | 106 | |
Standardized tonnage IMP | 106 | |
Guns mounted | ||
Vessel owners | Phillip, John Gardner, John |
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Voyage Outcome | Particular outcome of voyage | Vice-Admiralty Court, Tortola, 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 | Slave insurrection | |
Voyage Itinerary | Place where voyage began IMP | Charleston |
First place of slave purchase | Saint-Louis | |
Second place of slave purchase | ||
Third place of slave purchase | ||
Principal place of slave purchase IMP | Saint-Louis | |
Places of call before Atlantic crossing | ||
First place of slave landing | Tortola, port unspecified | |
Second place of slave landing | ||
Third place of slave landing | ||
Principal place of slave landing IMP | Tortola, port unspecified | |
Place where voyage ended | ||
Region where voyage began IMP | South Carolina | |
First region of slave purchase | Senegambia and offshore Atlantic | |
Second region of slave purchase | ||
Third region of slave purchase | ||
Principal region of slave purchase IMP | Senegambia and offshore Atlantic | |
First region of slave landing | Tortola | |
Second region of slave landing | ||
Third region of slave landing | ||
Principal region of slave landing IMP | Tortola | |
Region where voyage ended | ||
Voyage Dates | Year arrived with slaves IMP | 1807 |
Date voyage began | 1807-06-01 | |
Date trade began in Africa | 1807-08-01 | |
Date vessel departed Africa | 1807-09-30 | |
Date vessel arrived with slaves | 1807-11-06 | |
Date vessel departed for homeport | ||
Date voyage completed | ||
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP | 158 | |
Middle passage (days) IMP | 37 | |
Captain and Crew | Captain's name | Viall, Joshua |
Crew at voyage outset | ||
Crew at first landing of slaves | 9 | |
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 | 73 | |
Total slaves embarked IMP | 73 | |
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing | 70 | |
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 | 70 | |
Slave (characteristics) | Percentage men IMP | 53.8% |
Percentage women IMP | 12.3% | |
Percentage boys IMP | 23.1% | |
Percentage girls IMP | 10.8% | |
Percentage male IMP | 76.9% | |
Percentage children IMP | 33.8% | |
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP | ||
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP | 3 | |
Mortality rate IMP | 4.0% | |
Source | Sources | Donnan,IV,521n: Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930) Donnan,III,394-404: Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930) Dow,271-72,399: Dow, George Francis, Slave Ships and Slaving (Salem, MA, 1927). Coughtry, 151,241-85: Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981). Catterall,I:28: Catterall, Helen Tunnicliff, Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro (Washington, DC., 1926-1937) Acton,2:5-10: Great Britain, High Court of Appeals for Prizes, Reports of Cases argued and determined before the most noble and right honorable the Lords Commissioners of Appeals in prize causes: from June 12, 1809, to August 15, 1810, by Thomas Harmon Acton, 2 vols. (Boston, 1853). McMillin: McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert. PP,1825,XXV,pp.566,604: 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 Kelley2,29-31: Kelley, Sean, "Precedents: The 'Captured Negroes' of Tortola, 1807-1822," in Richard Anderson and Henry B. Lovejoy (eds.), Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (Rochester,2020), pp. 25-44 |