Ship, nation, owners | Voyage identification number | 4365 |
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM | Yes | |
Vessel name | Peter Mowell (a) Heroina | |
Flag | U.S.A. | |
Flag IMP | U.S.A. | |
Place constructed | Maryland, port unspecified | |
Year constructed | 1855 | |
Place registered | New Orleans | |
Year registered | 1860 | |
Rig | Schooner | |
Tonnage | 119 | |
Standardized tonnage IMP | 119 | |
Guns mounted | ||
Vessel owners | Prats, Salvador | |
Voyage Outcome | Particular outcome of voyage | Shipwrecked or destroyed, after embarkation of slaves or during slaving |
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP | Slaves perished with ship | |
Outcome of voyage if ship captured IMP | Natural hazard | |
Outcome of voyage for owner IMP | Original goal thwarted (natural hazard) | |
African resistance | ||
Voyage Itinerary | Place where voyage began IMP | New Orleans |
First place of slave purchase | Congo River | |
Second place of slave purchase | ||
Third place of slave purchase | ||
Principal place of slave purchase IMP | Congo River | |
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 | Gulf coast | |
First region of slave purchase | West Central Africa and St. Helena | |
Second region of slave purchase | ||
Third region of slave purchase | ||
Principal region of slave purchase IMP | West Central Africa and St. Helena | |
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 | 1860 |
Date voyage began | 1860-02-09 | |
Date trade began in Africa | ||
Date vessel departed Africa | ||
Date vessel arrived with slaves | 1860-05-?? | |
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 | Waters Smith, Alexander |
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 | ||
Total slaves embarked IMP | 421 | |
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing | 364 | |
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 | 364 | |
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 | IUP,ST,47/A/21: Great Britain, Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vols. 1-90 (Shannon, 1969-74).
Howard,254: Howard, Warren S., American Slaves and Federal Law, 1837-1862 (Berkeley, CA, 1963) Adderley,129-30: 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. |