EVENT INFORMATION

4
May
1794

The slave ship S Macário e Minerva began acquiring enslaved Africans for transportation to Brazil.

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📅 4 May 1794 📍 Brazil

Vessel: S Macário e Minerva; flag: Portugal / Brazil; rig: Ship. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Captain: Barros, Joaquim José Torquato de; Investor: Roberto, Antônio José; Captain: Viriato, Joaquim José. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Bissau (Senegambia and offshore Atlantic). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Maranhão. Recorded duration of the captives' Atlantic crossing: 42 days. Estimated mortality during the crossing: 3.0%.

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