EVENT INFORMATION

17
August
1709

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

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📅 17 August 1709 📍 Jamaica

Vessel: Macklesfield; flag: Great Britain. People recorded in connection with the voyage: Captain: Chadwick, Samuel; Investor: Forty, Anthony; Investor: Ambrose, William; Captain: Brewer, Benjamin. The voyage began at London on 17 August 1709. Principal recorded place where captives were acquired: Whydah, Ouidah (Bight of Benin). Principal recorded disembarkation place: Jamaica, place unspecified.

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