EVENT INFORMATION

10
May
1670

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

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📅 10 May 1670 📍 Martinique

Vessel: Hoop; flag: Netherlands. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Backer, Jan Pietersen; Captain: Waterdrinker, Willem Sijbrantsz; Investor: Pot, Nicolaes Tijmonsz; Captain: Buijs, Simon Gerritsz. The voyage began at Texel on 10 May 1670. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: New Calabar (Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Martinique, place unspecified. Recorded outcome: Captured by the French - after enslaved people disembarked.

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