Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001612
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3831
Case Name Marquis de Romana
Register Date
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1323
Person Name Quamina
Alternative or Transcribed Name Luamina
Modern Name Interpretation Kwamena
Transcribed Age 22
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'3
Height (in) 63
Height (cm) 160.02
Physical Characteristics Scratches
Transcribed Description Scars below ea tempe, large dᵒ right cheek, several small scratches left side cheek
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Akan
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 Voltaic
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Tigris
Capture Date 1810-09-02
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-11-21
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1318-1418
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) V7583
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)