15064 – Blossom (1678 – 1679) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 15064

Was this a corporate crossing: Yes

Vessel

Name: Blossom

Flags: gb

Tonnage: /

Journey

Departure Year: 1678

Departure Location: /

Arrival Year: 1679

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Cape Coast Castle

Principal landing location: Virginia, port unspecified

Number embarked: 270

Number disembarked: 244

Number of deaths: 26

Outcome

Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown

Sources

T70/15,16,17,19<>BNA (Kew) (), Donnan,I,250<>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930), T70/1222,73<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/962,47-8<>BNA (Kew) ()

Individuals (3)

George Berkeley, First Earl of Berkeley

Investor type: Corporate

Corporate Role: Director

Benjamin Bathurst

Investor type: Corporate

Corporate Role: Director

Sir Robert Clayton

Investor type: Corporate

Corporate Role: Director