Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 49398
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM
Vessel name S Isabel
Flag Portugal
Flag IMP Portugal / Brazil
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered
Year registered
Rig Schooner
Tonnage
Standardized tonnage IMP
Guns mounted
Vessel owners
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Vice-Admiralty Court, Bahamas, 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
Voyage Itinerary Place where voyage began IMP Boston
First place of slave purchase Cameroons
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Cameroons
Places of call before Atlantic crossing São Tomé
First place of slave landing Nassau
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Nassau
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP Massachusetts
First region of slave purchase Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands
Second region of slave purchase
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands
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 1811
Date voyage began
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1811-06-15
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 Alvez
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 130
Total slaves embarked IMP 130
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 115
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 115
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 34.8%
Percentage women IMP 14.8%
Percentage boys IMP 22.6%
Percentage girls IMP 27.8%
Percentage male IMP 57.4%
Percentage children IMP 50.4%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 15
Mortality rate IMP 12.0%
Source Sources AfricanInstit, Eighth, 75: African Institution, Eighth Report of the Directors of the African Institution (London, 1814).
Adderley,31: 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.
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