ABSTRACT
This article investigates the surprising number of shipboard insurrections during the transatlantic slaving 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 TSTD, 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 article traces the surrounding conditions and answers to what extent the captaincies kindled shipboard insurrections. This article suggests the interconnectedness between MCC slave ship captains and shipboard insurrections and encourages the discussion about the quantity of slave ship resistance to be reignited.
