3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
11410 – Mercurius (1798 – 1799)
Voyage ID: 11410
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Mercurius
Flags: denmark-baltic
Tonnage: 117.6
Journey
Departure Year: 1798
Departure Location: Hamburg
Arrival Year: 1799
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Accra
Principal landing location: Suriname
Number embarked: 303
Number disembarked: 279
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Sources
LList, 3 Dec 1799<><i>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808)</i>, Hernæs,273,286<><p>Hernæs, Per O, <em>Slaves, Danes, and African Coast Society: The Danish Slave Trade from West Africa and Afro-Danish Relations on the Eighteenth Century Gold Coast</em> (Trondheim, 1995).</p>