EVENT INFORMATION

16
May
1766

The slave ship Comte d'Hérouville departed on a transatlantic slave-trading voyage that would carry enslaved Africans to Martinique.

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📅 16 May 1766 📍 Martinique

Vessel: Comte d'Hérouville; flag: France; estimated standardized tonnage: 128.3. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Foucault, Rene; Captain: Cadillac, J-F; Captain: Chauvet, M. The voyage began at Nantes on 16 May 1766. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Gorée (Senegambia and offshore Atlantic). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Martinique, place unspecified. Recorded duration of the captives' Atlantic crossing: 55 days. Recorded outcome: Voyage completed as intended.

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