36910 – Commerce (1807 – 1807) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 36910

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Commerce

Flags: usa

Tonnage: 204.0

Journey

Departure Year: 1807

Departure Location: Rhode Island, port unspecified

Arrival Year: 1807

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Gold Coast, port unspecified

Principal landing location: Charleston

Number embarked: 271

Number disembarked: 242

Number of deaths: 29

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,IV,523-24<>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III (Washington, DC, 1930), LList, 19 Jan 1808<>Lloyds’ Lists (1741, 1744, 1747-53, 1755, 1757-58, 1760-77, 1779-1808), T70/1586,pt2<>BNA (Kew) (), McMillin<>McMillin, James A., The Final Victims: The Foreign Slave Trade to North America, 1783-1810 (Columbia, SC., 2004), CD-ROM insert.

Individuals

No information