EVENT INFORMATION

5
October
1789

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

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📅 5 October 1789 📍 Haiti

Vessel: Belle Arsène; flag: France. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Gage; Captain: Darribeau, Léon. The voyage began at Bordeaux on 5 October 1789. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Kilwa (East Africa and Indian Ocean islands). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Saint-Domingue, then Haiti, port unspecified.

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