Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 756
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Firme
Flag Spain
Flag IMP Spain / Uruguay
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered
Year registered
Rig Brigantine
Tonnage
Standardized tonnage IMP
Guns mounted 6
Vessel owners Tinto, Jayme
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Court of Mixed Commission, Havana, 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 Havana
First place of slave purchase Popo
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Popo
Places of call before Atlantic crossing
First place of slave landing Cuba, port unspecified
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Cuba, port unspecified
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP Cuba
First region of slave purchase Bight of Benin
Second region of slave purchase
Third region of slave purchase
Principal region of slave purchase IMP Bight of Benin
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 1828
Date voyage began
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1828-12-07
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 Sandrino, J
Crew at voyage outset 43
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 492
Total slaves embarked IMP 492
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 485
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 485
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 60.4%
Percentage women IMP 18.2%
Percentage boys IMP 15.0%
Percentage girls IMP 6.4%
Percentage male IMP 75.4%
Percentage children IMP 21.4%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 7
Mortality rate IMP 1.0%
Source Sources PP,1845,XLIX:593-633:

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


FO84/81,Macleay,28.12.18:

British Hational Archives (Kew)


FO313/57,ff.18-73:

Foreign Office, BNA (Kew)


Sosa,134: Sosa, Enrique, Negreros Catalanes y Gaditanos en la Trata Cubana, 1827-1833 (Habana, 1998).