EVENT INFORMATION

31
October
1698

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

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📅 31 October 1698 📍 Jamaica

Vessel: Recovery; flag: Great Britain; estimated standardized tonnage: 85.3. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Royal African Company; Captain: Burtley, John. The voyage began at London on 31 October 1698. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Gambia (Senegambia and offshore Atlantic). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Jamaica, place unspecified.

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