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Meijboom, Luc (2023)

A dreadful routine: African resistance during the captaincies of Jan Menkenveld, David Mulders, Daniel Pruijmelaar and Willem de Molder 1754 - 1767

Master thesis | History (MA)

This thesis investigates the surprising number of shipboard insurrections during the transatlantic voyages of captain Jan Menkenveld and his former officers: David Mulders, Daniel Pruijmelaar and Willem de Molder. Compared to the other registered insurrections on Dutch slave ships in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database, these MCC captains appear to have experienced the most insurrections on their triangular voyages. By carefully interplaying the muster rolls, ships’ journals and correspondence of their voyages on which insurrections occurred, this thesis traces the surrounding conditions aboard the slave ships and answers to what extent the captaincies kindled shipboard insurrections.

Slave trade

MCC

Insurrections

Resistance

Rebellion

Middle passage

Author

Meijboom, Luc

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Colonial and Global History (Including Maritime History)

Supervisors

Fatah-Black, K.J.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en