EVENT INFORMATION

8
March
1802

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

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📅 8 March 1802 📍 Barbados

Vessel: Hamilton; flag: Great Britain; rig: Schooner; estimated standardized tonnage: 117. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Investor: Milburne, Isaac; Investor: Weston, John; Captain: Holmes, Archibald. The voyage began at Liverpool on 8 March 1802. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Calabar (Bight of Biafra and Gulf of Guinea islands). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Barbados, place unspecified. Recorded outcome: Abandoned or condemned for unseaworthiness in the Americas.

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