Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000396
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-1
Case Name Seized in the Colony
Register Date 1809-11-06
Year 1809
Recaptive Number 101
Person Name Quah
Alternative or Transcribed Name Quab
Modern Name Interpretation Kwa
Transcribed Age 19
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Man
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) [N/D]
Height (in)
Height (cm)
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Broad arrow side of each eye
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to John Ellis (Mason)
Language Association Mende
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 Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date 1808-03-24
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1809-11-06
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 100-248
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.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V60001
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)