36191 – Sierra Leone (1755 – 1756) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 36191

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Sierra Leone

Flags: usa

Tonnage: 83.3

Journey

Departure Year: 1755

Departure Location: Rhode Island, port unspecified

Arrival Year: 1756

Arrival Location: Newport

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Cape Coast Castle

Principal landing location: St. Kitts, port unspecified

Number embarked: 57

Number disembarked: 47

Number of deaths: 10

Outcome

Voyage completed as intended

Sources

Coughtry, 241-85<>Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981)., AmerHistRec,I(1872),340-41<>Mason, George C,"The African Slave Trade in Colonial Times," American Historical Record, 1 (1872): 311-19, 338-45.

Individuals

No information