3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
33509 – Sphère (1707 – 1708)
Voyage ID: 33509
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Sphère
Flags: france
Tonnage: 562.0
Journey
Departure Year: 1707
Departure Location: La Rochelle
Arrival Year: 1708
Arrival Location: La Rochelle
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Whydah
Principal landing location: Buenos Aires
Number embarked: 550
Number disembarked: 413
Number of deaths: 137
Outcome
Voyage completed as intended
Sources
Studer<><p>De Studer, Elena F. S., <em>Trata de Negros en el Rio de la Plata Durante el Siglo XVII</em> (Buenos Aires, 1984).</p>, Munford,207<>Munford, Clarence J., <i>Black Ordeal of Slavery and Slave Trading in the French West Indies, 1625-1715</i>, 3 vols. (Lewiston, NY, 1991)., ANSOM, C8A 17,ff.126-34<><p><em>Archives Nationales, Section d’Outre-mer</em> (Aix-en-Provence, France)</p>