Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI004172
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3854
Case Name São Miguel Triunfante
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 3212
Person Name Auko
Alternative or Transcribed Name Cuko
Modern Name Interpretation Kwaku
Transcribed Age 28
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'4
Height (in) 64
Height (cm) 162.56
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description 3 scars side of each eye & on side mouth: 1 dᵒ between each eyebrow: large mark left elbow: dᵒ under dᵒ
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Gbe
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 Little Popo
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Kangaroo
Capture Date 1812-03-31
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-06-16
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/35; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 3208-3340
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) V7627
Researcher Notes
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