Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000334
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3802
Case Name Marie Paul
Register Date 1808
Year 1808
Recaptive Number 39
Person Name Barra
Alternative or Transcribed Name Barree
Modern Name Interpretation Bara
Transcribed Age 13
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'7
Height (in) 55
Height (cm) 139.7
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Scar under left eye
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to Thomas Johnson (Culd. of Marsons
Language Association Temne
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 Savanna
Embarkation Port Saint-Louis
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Derwent
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1808-11-10
Intended Destination Region French Caribbean
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/24; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1-60
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) V7539
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)