3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
4786 – Relâmpago (1851 – 1851)
Voyage ID: 4786
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Relâmpago
Flags: /
Tonnage: 322.5
Journey
Departure Year: 1851
Departure Location: Rio de Janeiro
Arrival Year: 1851
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Lagos, Onim
Principal landing location: Rio de Janeiro province
Number embarked: 820
Number disembarked: 785
Number of deaths: 35
Outcome
Arrested by Brazil or given up to the Brazilian government
Sources
FO84/848,Wetherell,51.11.14<><p><em>BNA</em> (Kew), Foreign Office</p>, Bethell,358-9<>Bethell, Leslie, <i>The Abolition of the Brazilian Slave Trade</i> (Cambridge, 1970)., Verger<>Verger, Pierre, <i>Trade Relations Between the Bight of Benin and Bahia, 17<sup>th</sup> to 19<sup>th</sup> Century</i>, (Ibadan, 1976)., Araujo<>De Araújo, Ubiratan Castro, “The Last Slave Cargo from Lagos to Bahia,” paper presented at the conference Rethinking the African Diaspora: the Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil (Emory University, 1998)