Tafui
Person Details
| UID | VI010537 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-27 |
| Case Name | Seized at the Bananas and the Settlement of Goree and Senegal |
| Register Date | |
| Year | 1815 |
| Recaptive Number | 7858 |
| Person Name | Tafui |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | Tapei |
| Modern Name Interpretation | |
| Transcribed Age | 30 |
| Age Category | Adult (14 to 40 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | W |
| Sex | Female |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | 4'10 |
| Height (in) | 58 |
| Height (cm) | 147 |
| Physical Characteristics | Tattoo |
| Transcribed Description | Tattoes over right elbow: dᵒ ea side face: much at behind right shoulder: & tattoed behind left dᵒ |
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Travel & Court Related Information
| Government Department | Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain |
|---|---|
| Court Condemned | Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown |
| Embarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Embarkation Port | Unknown |
| Disembarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Disembarkation Port | Freetown |
| Capture Ship | |
| Capture Date | |
| Arrival Date | 1815-10-28 |
| Sentence Date | 1815-11-09 |
| Intended Destination Region | |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
| Post Disembarkation | Freetown |
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Archival & Source Data
| Source | Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 7844-7860 |
|---|---|
| Digitization | Endangered Archives Programme, 2009. “Before the War, After the War: Preserving History in Sierra Leone,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP284; Endangered Archives Programme, 2011. “Nineteenth Century Documents of the Sierra Leone Public Archives,” British Library. Available online: https://eap.bl.uk/project/EAP443. |
| Transcription | SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024) |
| Name Interpreter | |
| Digital Archivists | |
| Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) | V60032 |
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