9705 – Experiment (1692 – 1693) | The Register of British Slave-Traders (staging)

3.1 million enslaved people trafficked to the British colonies

Voyage ID: 9705

Was this a corporate crossing: Yes

Vessel

Name: Experiment

Flags: gb

Tonnage: 54.8

Journey

Departure Year: 1692

Departure Location: London

Arrival Year: 1693

Arrival Location: Sherbro

Enslaved people

Principal purchase location: Sherbro

Principal landing location: Saint John (Antigua)

Number embarked: 111

Number disembarked: 86

Number of deaths: 25

Outcome

Returned direct to Africa after bringing slaves to the Americas

Sources

Kriger<>Colleen E. Kriger, "'Our Indigo designe' Planting and Processing Indigo for Export, the Upper Guinea Coast, 1684-1702," in Robin Law, Silke Strickrodt and Suzanne Schwarz (eds.), Commercial Agriculture in Africa in the pre-Colonial Era (London, 2012), pp. 98-115., T70/12,53,98,171<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/946,68-70<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/917<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/61,ff.97,165<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/50, 1693.09.12.<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/1433, 1694.02.28.<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/588, f.77<>BNA (Kew) (), T70/1442<>BNA (Kew) ()

Individuals

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