EVENT INFORMATION

29
December
1791

The slave ship Mars departed on a transatlantic slave-trading voyage that would carry enslaved Africans to French Guiana.

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📅 29 December 1791 📍 French Guiana

Vessel: Mars; flag: France. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Baudoin; Captain: Pinson; Captain: Delavaud. The voyage began at Rochefort on 29 December 1791. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Calabar (Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Cayenne. Recorded duration of the captives' Atlantic crossing: 174 days. Estimated mortality during the crossing: 87.0%. Recorded outcome: Sold in the Americas after disembarking enslaved people.

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