Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 7597
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Dois Amigos
Flag Portugal
Flag IMP Portugal / Brazil
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered Bahia, place unspecified
Year registered
Rig Schooner
Tonnage
Standardized tonnage IMP
Guns mounted
Vessel owners Souza, Francisco Félix de
Sampão, Francisco Moreira
Ferreira Guedes, João
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 Whydah, Ouidah
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Whydah, Ouidah
Places of call before Atlantic crossing São Tomé
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 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 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
Date trade began in Africa 1816-04-17
Date vessel departed Africa 1816-06-27
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1816-08-06
Date vessel departed for homeport
Date voyage completed
Voyage length, homeport to slaves landing (days) IMP
Middle passage (days) IMP 40
Captain and Crew Captain's name Estacio, Andre
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 282
Number of slaves arriving at first place of landing 247
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 247
Slave (characteristics) Percentage men IMP 38.1%
Percentage women IMP 29.6%
Percentage boys IMP 25.1%
Percentage girls IMP 7.3%
Percentage male IMP 63.2%
Percentage children IMP 32.4%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP
Mortality rate IMP
Source Sources HCA49/101:

British National Archives (Kew)


Verger,568: Verger, Pierre, Trade Relations Between the Bight of Benin and Bahia, 17th to 19th Century, (Ibadan, 1976).
FO308/1,73:

TNA (Kew)


Meyer-Heiselberg,10:

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


AHU,SãoTomé,Cx.51,D.5:

Arquivo Historico Ultramarino (Lisboa)