Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001419
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3851
Case Name Esperança
Register Date
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 757
Person Name Fairra
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 19
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'2 3/4
Height (in) 62.75
Height (cm) 159.39
Physical Characteristics Scarification, Scarification
Transcribed Description Small round dent pit of stomach very large scar below left knee dᵒ front left ancle
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to George Malcolm July 31st 1810, Husbandry
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 Sherbro
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Crocodile
Capture Date 1810-04-23
Arrival Date 1810-05-10
Sentence Date 1810-05-14
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location Ran away
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 732-822
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
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7619
Researcher Notes
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