The 1831 Mutiny on the Prince of Orange: A Slave Revolt in the Atlantic

In 1831, the slave ship Prince of Orange set sail from Havana with over 200 enslaved Africans bound for the sugar plantations of Cuba. But before the ship could cross the Atlantic, a brave group of Igbo men, led by a man named Okee, rose up in a desperate bid for freedom. This episode dives into the mutiny, the brutal suppression that followed, and the legal aftermath that unfolded in Havana's colonial courts. We follow the ship's journey from the Bight of Biafra, the role of the Aro Confederacy in supplying captives, and the specific ethnic identities of the Igbo rebels. Through trial records from the Real Audiencia de La Habana, we piece together the names, testimonies, and fates of the men who risked everything. The episode also explores the broader context of slave resistance in the 1830s, the tightening of British abolition pressure, and the chilling reality that even successful mutinies rarely meant freedom. This is a story of courage, terror, and the law's complicity in human trafficking. #PrinceOfOrange #SlaveShipMutiny #Igbo #Havana #BightOfBiafra #AroConfederacy #1831 #SlaveRevolt #AtlanticSlaveTrade #Cuba #SugarPlantations #SpanishColonialLaw #Okee #MiddlePassage #Resistance #Abolition #RealAudiencia #FexingoHistory Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo