ukpuru:When I was looking around the database I used the filter for ‘ships that faced significant Af
ukpuru:When I was looking around the database I used the filter for ‘ships that faced significant African resistance’, and I was surprised to see what’s in the image, apparently African people (and in this case people from around Calabar) were attacking slave ships, not from inside, but from the shore. And this:Voyage 90655, Phoenix (1756)A ship was attacked, from the shore, at Bonny in the Niger Delta, a slave trading town, and the ship went nowhere, with 352 being rescued and disembarked in the ‘Old World’ (Africa), and the 36 crew missing, with the likelihood that the entire ship was captured by Africans. And this isn’t even the only case of this happening, on the database there are other cases from around Africa where the trade was happening, 61 known cases from 1688 to 1822 in which a boatload of Africans were rescued by/with the cooperation of Africans on the shore. So there are a load of people out there, probably, whose ancestors were loaded on a ship bound for Dominica, in this instance, whose ancestors were rescued and stayed in Africa.You can see all the 61 recorded cases here. -- source link
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