Nova Sorte (1818)
Voyage Overview
The Portuguese Sumaca, Nova Sorte, left Bahia on 12 December 1817 and purchased 239 enslaved people at the Costa da Mina (no date recorded). This broad region corresponds to a coastal strip in the Gulf of Guinea encompassing the Gold Coast and Bight of Benin. While some ships leaving ports along the Gold Coast would not have carried Yoruba speakers, many of these ships would have been avoiding British blockades and likely traded further east in the Bight of Benin, most especially between Little Popo, Ouidah and Lagos. The captain, Luís Pacheco da Silva, sailed the vessel, owned by Antônio José Chaves, back toward Brazil as intended, when it landed at São Salvador da Bahia on 13 May 1818. Only 217 people survived the Middle Passage. For more information, see Map of 1818.
Archival Resources
As Referenced in Voyages
Idade de Ouro do Brasil, IDO, 22-5-1818.
Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia (Salvador da Bahia, Brazil), APEB, cod 456, p. 289.