EVENT INFORMATION

27
October
1742

The slave ship Pheasant departed on a transatlantic slave-trading voyage that would carry enslaved Africans to Jamaica.

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📅 27 October 1742 📍 Jamaica

Vessel: Pheasant; flag: Great Britain; rig: Ship; estimated standardized tonnage: 128.3. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Day, James; Captain: Hardwicke, Eustace. The voyage began at Bristol on 27 October 1742. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Bonny (Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Kingston.

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