Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI010544
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-28
Case Name Seized at Mania
Register Date
Year 1815
Recaptive Number 7865
Person Name Jack Davis
Alternative or Transcribed Name Jack
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 25
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'7 3/4
Height (in) 68
Height (cm) 173
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Long scar front right knee: scar between fingers and throat right hand: large nose: 1 dᵒ above left breast: 1 dᵒ between breasts
Digits
Disposal
Language Association
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
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 1815-11
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1815-12-05
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 7861-7871
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) V60033
Researcher Notes
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