São João do Rio (1818)
Voyage Overview
The Portuguese Sumaca, São João do Rio, left Bahia on 17 March 1818 and purchased 239 enslaved people at Little Popo (no date recorded). The captain, Manoel Pereira da Silva, sailed the vessel, owned by Antônio José Teixeira, back toward Brazil as intended, when it likely landed at São Salvador da Bahia on 22 August 1818. Only 217 people survived the Middle Passage. For more information, see Map of 1818.
Archival Resources
Creator
Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (APEB), Maço 456, “Alvarás de navegação (registros),” 1789-1822, f. 288-308v.
Description
The available metadata on this archival resource includes: type of vessel, date and place of departure from Bahia, and names of the captain and owner (if known). However, there is much missing data since the record refers to outbound vessels and not inbound arrivals; hence, totals for number of enslaved people on board is absent. The Voyages database provides estimates for these ship totals based on the type of vessel, which denotes tonnage and ship capacity. This record contains sparse details about Yoruba speakers beyond usages of "Costa da Mina," which is an ambiguous geographic slave trading term for the Gold Coast and Bight of Benin.
As Referenced in Voyages
Idade de Ouro do Brasil, IDO, 1818-8-25.
Idade de Ouro do Brasil, IDO, 1818-10-20.
Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil), APEB, cod 456, p. 290v.
Arquivo Histórico Municipal de Salvador (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil), AHMS, 27.2, p. 21.