17917 – Alert (1783 – 1784) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 17917

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Alert

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 182.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1783

Departure Location: Bristol

Arrival Year: 1784

Arrival Location: Bristol

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: South Carolina, port unspecified

Number embarked: 212

Number disembarked: 199

Number of deaths: 13

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

Richardson,IV<>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), McMillin<>McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert., The Slate<>http://www.slate.com/articles/life/history_lesson/2013/06/george_w_bush_and_slavery_the_president_and_his_father_are_descendants_of.html

Individuals (1)

P_10404_1071 - John Anderson

Role: Owner