3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
35117 – Vesuvius
Voyage ID: 35117
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Vesuvius
Flags: denmark-baltic
Tonnage: /
Journey
Departure Year: /
Departure Location: /
Arrival Year: 1749
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified
Principal landing location: Danish West Indies, colony unspecified
Number embarked: 300
Number disembarked: 257
Number of deaths: 43
Outcome
Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Sources
Westergaard,325<>Westergaard, Waldemar, <i>The Danish West Indies Under Company Rule (1671-1754)</i> (New York, 1917)., Nørregård,109<><p>Nørregård, Georg, <em>Danish Settlements in West Africa, 1658-1850</em> (Boston, 1965).</p>, Hernæs,256,258<><p>Hernæs, Per O, <em>Slaves, Danes, and African Coast Society: The Danish Slave Trade from West Africa and Afro-Danish Relations on the Eighteenth Century Gold Coast</em> (Trondheim, 1995).</p>