In 1817, pirates intercepted a Spanish slave ship bound for Brazil with 95 slaves from Gambia. On October 20, 1817, pirates brought the slave ship Jesus Nazareno to Amelia Island, East Florida.
The Jesus Nazareno (Mariano Ferrar, captain) spent 47 days in the arduous Middle Passage. Of the 95 Africans placed in the ship, all 95 were alive upon reaching Amelia Island. Elizabeth M. Halcrow wrote, "Slaves from Senegambia and Angola were usually healthiest as they came by short routes on which the winds were fairly predictable."
In contrast, the American ship Aquila left Rio Pongo, Guinea with 143 slaves, of whom 126 were alive upon reaching Florida in 1810. In 1806, Zephaniah Kingsley's ship Peje acquired 19 slaves in Zanzibar, East Africa, of whom 16 were still alive upon reaching East Florida.
For information on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, visit the web site http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/database/search.faces. For more on Zephaniah Kingsley's "Zinguibara" slaves, please consult, Daniel L. Schafer, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003),139 note 3. Elizabeth M. Halcrow, Canes and Chains: A Study of Sugar and Slavery (Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann, 1982), 30.
The Jesus Nazareno (Mariano Ferrar, captain) spent 47 days in the arduous Middle Passage. Of the 95 Africans placed in the ship, all 95 were alive upon reaching Amelia Island. Elizabeth M. Halcrow wrote, "Slaves from Senegambia and Angola were usually healthiest as they came by short routes on which the winds were fairly predictable."
In contrast, the American ship Aquila left Rio Pongo, Guinea with 143 slaves, of whom 126 were alive upon reaching Florida in 1810. In 1806, Zephaniah Kingsley's ship Peje acquired 19 slaves in Zanzibar, East Africa, of whom 16 were still alive upon reaching East Florida.
For information on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, visit the web site http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/database/search.faces. For more on Zephaniah Kingsley's "Zinguibara" slaves, please consult, Daniel L. Schafer, Anna Madgigine Jai Kingsley: African Princess, Florida Slave, Plantation Slaveowner (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003),139 note 3. Elizabeth M. Halcrow, Canes and Chains: A Study of Sugar and Slavery (Kingston, Jamaica: Heinemann, 1982), 30.
