3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies
70029 – Beginning (1649 – 1649)
Voyage ID: 70029
Was this a corporate crossing: No
Vessel
Name: Beginning
Flags: usa
Tonnage: 40.0
Journey
Departure Year: 1649
Departure Location: Portsmouth (NH)
Arrival Year: 1649
Arrival Location: /
Enslaved people
Principal purchase location: Africa., port unspecified
Principal landing location: Barbados, port unspecified
Number embarked: 149
Number disembarked: 126
Number of deaths: /
Outcome
Left home port, no further record
Sources
Crane,11<>Crane, Elaine F., "The First Wheel of Commerce': Newport, Rhode Island and the Slave Trade, 1760-1776," <i>Slavery & Abolition</i>, 1 (1980): 178-98., Donnan,III,n9<><p>Donnan, Elizabeth, ed., <em>Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to the Americas, vol. III</em> (Washington, DC, 1930)</p>