EVENT INFORMATION

7
March
1755

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

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📅 7 March 1755 📍 Guadeloupe

Vessel: Silphe; flag: France; estimated standardized tonnage: 146.3. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Bailly; Captain: Satin, Jean-Baptiste Simon. The voyage began at Nantes on 7 March 1755. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Cacheu (Senegambia and offshore Atlantic). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Basse-Terre. Recorded outcome: Laid up (disarmed) or broken up in the Americas.

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