4976 – Majestad (a) JW Reid (1858 – 1859) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 4976

Was this a corporate crossing: No

Vessel

Name: Majestad (a) JW Reid

Flags: usa

Tonnage: 350.0

Journey

Departure Year: 1858

Departure Location: /

Arrival Year: 1859

Arrival Location: /

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Congo River

Principal landing location: Puerto Rico, port unspecified

Number embarked: 1050

Number disembarked: 825

Number of deaths: 225

Outcome

Captured by Spanish - after disembarkation

Sources

Howard,214-62<>Howard, Warren S., American Slaves and Federal Law, 1837-1862 (Berkeley, CA, 1963), HED,36-2,7:253<>United States Congress, House Executive Document, 27-1, 34; 30-2, 671; 35-2, 104; 36-2, 7., Dorsey,136-46<>Dorsey, Joseph C., Slave Trade in the Age of Abolition: Puerto Rico, West Africa and the Non-Hispanic Caribbean, 1815-1859 (Gainesville, 2003). , PP,1859,sess II, class B, p.187<>Great Britain, Parliamentary Papers: 1777, Accounts and Papers, No 9 1788, XXII 1789, XXIV, XXV, XXVI 1790, XXIX, XXX, XXXI 1790-91, XXXIV 1792, XXXV 1795-96, XLII 1798-99, XLVIII 1799 XLVIII 1801-2, IV 1803-4, X 1806, XII 1813-14, XII 1816, VII 1823, XIX 1825, XXVII, XXIX 1826, XXIX 1826-7, XXII, XXVI 1828, XXVI 1829, XXVI 1830, X 1831, XIX 1831-32, XLVII 1842, XLIV 1845,XLIX 1847-8, XXII 1852-3, XXXIX

Individuals

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