Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 7590
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name S Antônio Milagroso
Flag Portugal
Flag IMP Portugal / Brazil
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered
Year registered
Rig Bergantim
Tonnage 120
Standardized tonnage IMP 120
Guns mounted
Vessel owners Costa, Manoel José Dias da
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Vice-Admiralty Court, Sierra Leone, condemned ,
Outcome of voyage for slaves IMP Slaves disembarked in Old World
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 Bahia, place unspecified
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
First place of slave landing Freetown
Second place of slave landing
Third place of slave landing
Principal place of slave landing IMP Freetown
Place where voyage ended
Region where voyage began IMP Bahia
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 Sierra Leone
Second region of slave landing
Third region of slave landing
Principal region of slave landing IMP Sierra Leone
Region where voyage ended
Voyage Dates Year arrived with slaves IMP 1816
Date voyage began 1815-10-18
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa 1816-02-23
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1816-04-17
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP 182
Middle passage (days) IMP 54
Captain and Crew Captain's name Viana, Isidoro Antônio
Crew at voyage outset 29
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 600
Total slaves embarked IMP 600
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 505
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 505
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 52.5%
Percentage women IMP 20.8%
Percentage boys IMP 10.1%
Percentage girls IMP 16.6%
Percentage male IMP 62.6%
Percentage children IMP 26.7%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 95
Mortality rate IMP 16.0%
Source Sources HCA49/101:

British National Archives (Kew)


AfricanInstit, Thirteenth,73: African Institution, Thirteenth Report of the Directors of the African Institution (London, 1820).
FO308/1,338-39:

TNA (Kew)


FO84/37,Marsdon,23.03.29,enc:

British National Archives (Kew), Foreign Office


CSPCS,V,127:

Great Britain, Calendar of State Papers: Colonial Series (London, 1878-1905), Vols. 1, 5, 7-21, 42, 58


Meyer-Heiselberg,9:

Meyer-Heiselberg, R., Notes from the Liberated African Department in the Archives at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Uppsala, 1967)


APEB, cod 456, p.284v:

Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Bahia)


APEB, cod 456, p.285v:

Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Bahia)


AHMS, 27,4, p. 56: Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Salvador (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil)
AHMS, 30.1, p. 12v: Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Salvador (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil)