Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001312
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3808
Case Name Diana
Register Date 1808
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1236
Person Name Behya
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Beah
Transcribed Age 19
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 3'3
Height (in) 39
Height (cm) 99.06
Physical Characteristics Tattoo
Transcribed Description Belly & hand tattooed. oval mark left hip. 3 tattoes each calf
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Mende
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 Cape Mount
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Crocodile
Capture Date 1810-09-11
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-11-07
Intended Destination Region Swedish Caribbean
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1234-1317
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. Padraic Scanlan donated materials from CO267.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7548
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)