3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
32909 – Vénus (1729 – 1729)
Voyage ID: 32909
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Vénus
Flags: france
Tonnage: 343.1
Journey
Departure Year: 1729
Departure Location: Lorient
Arrival Year: 1729
Arrival Location: Lorient
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Goree
Principal landing location: New Orleans
Number embarked: 450
Number disembarked: 363
Number of deaths: 87
Outcome
Voyage completed as intended
Sources
mettas,II<>Mettas, Jean, <i>Répertoire des Expéditions Négrières Françaises au XVIIIe Siècle;</i> Tome 1, <i>Nantes</i> (Paris, 1978); Tome 2, <i>Ports Autres que Nantes</i> (Paris, 1984), édité par Serge et Michelle Daget., Hall,393<>Hall, Gwendolyn Midlo, <i>Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century</i> (Baton Rouge, 1992). , LeTréhour,198,206,218<>Le Tréhour, Nolwenn, “La traite des Noirs lorientaise au temps de la Compagnie des Indes (1720-1770),” MA dissertation (Université de Bretagne-Sud, 1999)