15078 – Scepter (1691 – 1692) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 15078

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Scepter

Flags: gb

Tonnage: /

Journey

Departure Year: 1691

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1692

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Whydah

Principal landing location: Barbados, port unspecified

Number embarked: 855

Number disembarked: 650

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown

Sources

T70/169,89<>BNA (Kew) (), Donnan,I,391<>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930), Rawl,C747,287,313<>Bodleian Library (Oxford, UK) Rawlinson mss, C745-747, Law,EWA,docs177,643,1345<>Law, Robin, The English in West Africa, 1691-1699: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England (Oxford, 2007).

Individuals

No information