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Shipbuilding CommunityNumber of Vessels BuiltTotal # of Voyages# of Transatlantic Voyages# of Intra-American VoyagesEnslaved EmbarkedEnslaved Disembarked Mortality Rate %First year Slave Ship builtLast Year Slave Ship BuiltFirst Slave VoyageLast Slave VoyagePercentage of Vessels Built StatewidePercentage of Voyages Statewide
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Amesbury5131302,1401,83914.0717141853176018601.93%3.13%
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Boston114144984626,40522,17016.04171718031719182144.02%34.70%
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Chatham222038934511.3117651781178417880.77%0.48%
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Cohasset122074054027.0318391839185718590.39%0.48%
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Dighton4111012,1581,81615.8517451804175018071.54%2.65%
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Duxbury57701,3891,18514.6917391745174917751.93%1.69%
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Freetown23302822569.2217501795175317990.77%0.72%
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Georgetown*222017115111.7017651766177017720.77%0.48%
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Hingham244068661410.5017491764176417660.77%0.96%
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Kingston33211,20021981.7517641836176418641.16%0.72%
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Marblehead111017115111.7017631763177017700.39%0.24%
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Marshfield57436115608.3517521764175517711.93%1.69%
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Newbury55105921323,69520,05615.36172818581731186321.24%25.30%
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Plymouth11013233.3317161716173717370.39%0.24%
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Salem36242,3292,1149.2317331822174618491.16%1.45%
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Salisbury88531,5091,34011.2017501836175218443.09%1.93%
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Scituate55233783419.7917461752175217561.93%1.20%
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Somerset13301411298.5117941794179617990.39%0.72%
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Swansea11201823,7313,12916.1417461763174817754.25%4.82%
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Weymouth232137127924.8017541800175418070.77%0.72%
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Unspecified276521444,8844,33111.32174817721749185610.42%15.66%
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TOTALS25941529312273,38361,56716.101714185817191864100.00%100.00%
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Souls lost en route:11,816
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This table complies data from the Trans-Atlantic and Intra-Atlantic databases at SlaveVoyages.org regard the 259 ships built across 19 Massachusetts comunities that are known to have transported slaves, either across the Middle Passage, or from one location in the Americas to another.
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* The vessel Duke of Bridgewater, built in Georgetown, was subject to resistence in West Aftica. It was cut off by Africans and the enslaved people set fire to the ship.
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* The Kingston< MA, mortality rate may be skewed. I could not parse if the descrepencey betwen the embarked/disembarked enslaved people was because of tragedy or because of positive human intervention that prevented enslaved people from being trafficed to the Americas.
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