03/09/2022
Another successful revolt was the Little George Ship Revolt on June 1730, Captain George Scott of the ship Little George sailed from the Guinea Coast in route to Rhode Island, with a cargo of some 96 k.idnapped Africans. Several days into the voyage, several African men slipped out of their irons and a.ttacked the crew. Using weapons seized on the ship, the Africans k.illed three of the watchmen who were on deck. Scott and his crew tried to fight back, Scott wrote: I being then in my Cabin and hearing Noise upon Deck they throwing the Watch overboard took my Pistol directly, and fired, which made all the enslaved Africans that were loose run forwards except for two Men who seemed to laugh at the Cowardice of the rest, and defiance of us, "unquote". For several days the Africans controlled the ship and managed to sail it back to the Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 River, an estuary to the Atlantic Ocean. After making it to shore, the Africans left the captain and crew that were alive and abandoned the ship and disappeared.
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