Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI004055
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3877
Case Name Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 3095
Person Name Lassaday
Alternative or Transcribed Name Lafaday
Modern Name Interpretation Laseinde
Transcribed Age 9
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'5
Height (in) 53
Height (cm) 134.62
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Scar over right eye: & outside left leg
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Yoruba
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 Lagos
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Amelia
Capture Date 1812-04-05
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-05-05
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, 2939-3142
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) V7668
Researcher Notes
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