36510 – Union (1775 – 1775) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 36510

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Union

Flags: usa

Tonnage: /

Journey

Departure Year: 1775

Departure Location: Rhode Island, port unspecified

Arrival Year: 1775

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Jamaica, port unspecified

Number embarked: 149

Number disembarked: 126

Number of deaths: /

Outcome

Returned direct to Africa after bringing slaves to the Americas

Sources

Coughtry, 241-85<>Coughtry, Jay, The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807 (Philadelphia, 1981)., Donnan,III,321<>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930), LList, 23 Aug 1776<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808)

Individuals

No information