Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI003875
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3779
Case Name Felix Americano
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 2915
Person Name Narien
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 23
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'7 3/4
Height (in) 67.75
Height (cm) 172.09
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Scar down forehead: dᵒ side of each eye; mark on each cheek
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 Porto Novo
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Amelia
Capture Date 1812-01-06
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-04-04
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/35; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 2908-2938
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) V7507
Researcher Notes
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