3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
36646 – Rising Sun (1795 – 1797)
Voyage ID: 36646
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Rising Sun
Flags: usa
Tonnage: 29.0
Journey
Departure Year: 1795
Departure Location: Rhode Island, port unspecified
Arrival Year: 1797
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Africa., port unspecified
Principal landing location: Charleston
Number embarked: 83
Number disembarked: 69
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Sold slaves in Americas - subsequent fate unknown
Sources
Coughtry, 241-85<><p>Coughtry, Jay, <em>The Notorious Triangle: Rhode Island and the African Slave Trade, 1700-1807</em> (Philadelphia, 1981).</p>, Hernæs,269,284<><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>