3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
5501 – Esperança
Voyage ID: 5501
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Esperança
Flags: portugal-brazil
Tonnage: /
Journey
Departure Year: /
Departure Location: /
Arrival Year: 1837
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Luanda
Principal landing location: Bahamas, port unspecified
Number embarked: 240
Number disembarked: 220
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Shipwrecked or destroyed, after embarkation of slaves or during slaving
Sources
Dalleo,24<>Dalleo, Peter D.,"Africans in the Caribbean: A Preliminary Reassessment of Recaptives in the Bahamas, 1811-1860," <i>Journal of the Bahamas Historical Society</i>, 6 (1984): 15-24., FO313/62,ff.1-18<><p><em>BNA</em> (Kew), Foreign Office</p>, Sadler<>Sadler, Nigel, “The Sinking of the Slave Ship, the ‘Trouvadore’,” paper delivered to the Fifth World Archeological Congress (2003)