16916 – Rainbow (1737 – 1737) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 16916

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Rainbow

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 164.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1737

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1737

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Africa., port unspecified

Principal landing location: /

Number embarked: 271

Number disembarked: 217

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Left home port, no further record

Sources

Richardson,II<>Richardson, David, Bristol, Africa and the Eighteenth Century Slave Trade to America: Volume 1, The Years of Expansion, 1698-1729 (Bristol, 1986); Volume 2, The Years of Ascendancy, 1730-1745 (Bristol, 1987); Volume 3, The Years of Decline, 1746-1769 (Bristol, 1991); Volume 4, The Final Years, 1770-1807 (Bristol, 1997)

Individuals (1)

P_10404_0037 - Edmund Saunders

Role: Owner