3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
35326 – Mercurius
Voyage ID: 35326
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Mercurius
Flags: denmark-baltic
Tonnage: /
Journey
Departure Year: /
Departure Location: /
Arrival Year: 1756
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Bight of Benin, port unspecified
Principal landing location: St. Croix
Number embarked: 73
Number disembarked: 62
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Sources
Hernæs,256,259<><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>