17273 – Sybylla (1750 – 1751) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 17273

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Sybylla

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 110.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1750

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1751

Arrival Location: Bristol

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Anomabu

Principal landing location: Newcastle (Nevis)

Number embarked: 273

Number disembarked: 236

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

Richardson,III<>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), LList, 9 Apr 1751<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), LList, 28 May 1751<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), LList, 4 June 1751<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), LList, 9 July 1751<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), Wax,1968,490<>Wax, Darold,"A Philadelphia Surgeon on a Slaving Voyage to Africa, 1749-51," Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 92 (1968): 465-93., BRO, SMV/9/3/3/1,37<>Bristol Record Office (Bristol, UK) Society of Merchant Venturers, Sailors’ petitions for relief from the Society of Merchant Venturers

Individuals

No information