Ship, nation, owners Voyage identification number 7675
Voyage in 1999 CD-ROM Yes
Vessel name Sylphe
Flag
Flag IMP Portugal / Brazil
Place constructed
Year constructed
Place registered
Year registered
Rig Schooner
Tonnage 153
Standardized tonnage IMP 153
Guns mounted
Vessel owners
Voyage Outcome Particular outcome of voyage Vice-Admiralty Court, Sierra Leone, restored
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 Guadeloupe, place unspecified
First place of slave purchase Bonny
Second place of slave purchase
Third place of slave purchase
Principal place of slave purchase IMP Bonny
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 Guadaloupe
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 1819
Date voyage began 1819-??-??
Date trade began in Africa
Date vessel departed Africa
Date vessel arrived with slaves 1819-02-07
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
Crew at voyage outset 38
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 388
Total slaves embarked IMP 388
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 45.3%
Percentage women IMP 16.5%
Percentage boys IMP 20.9%
Percentage girls IMP 17.3%
Percentage male IMP 66.2%
Percentage children IMP 38.2%
Sterling cash price in Jamaica IMP
Slave deaths during middle passage IMP 24
Mortality rate IMP 6.0%
Source Sources HCA37/3:

British National Archives (Kew)


AfricanInstit, Fifteenth, 5: African Institution, Fifteenth Report of the Directors of the African Institution (London, 1822).
Daget:

Répertoire des expéditions négrières françaises à la traite illégale (Nantes, 1988)


Meyer-Heiselberg,11:

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