EVENT INFORMATION

6
March
1763

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

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📅 6 March 1763 📍 Haiti

Vessel: Gédéon; flag: France; estimated standardized tonnage: 74.3. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Georget, Mathurin; Captain: Bézier, Nonne. The voyage began at Nantes on 6 March 1763. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Calabar (Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Cap Français. Estimated mortality during the crossing: 25.0%. Recorded outcome: Laid up (disarmed) or broken up in the Americas.

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