Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI002298
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3822
Case Name Vênus
Register Date 1808
Year 1811
Recaptive Number 2011
Person Name Lapoo
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 24
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'8 1/2
Height (in) 68.5
Height (cm) 173.99
Physical Characteristics Complexion Yellowish, Complexion Yellowish
Transcribed Description Large dent under left eye: scar on right shoulder blade: yellowish complexion
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 Western Bight
Embarkation Port Badagry
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Thais
Capture Date 1811-09-01
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1811-12-16
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1971-1991
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 Henry Lovejoy in reference with Adeboye Bablola and Olugboyega Alaba, A Dictionary of Yoruba Personal Names (Lagos: West African Book Publishers Ltd., 2003); Cossi Boniface Gnanguenon, Le dictionaire étymologique des noms propres de personne au Bénin: Langues fon et français (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015). In consultation with Olatunji Ojo, Abubakar Babajo Sani, and Umar Hussein.
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7572
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)