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
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%
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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).
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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)


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PP,1825,XXV,pp.566,604:

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