Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI004485
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3703
Case Name Luisa (a) Rainbow
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 3525
Person Name Tom
Alternative or Transcribed Name Jom
Modern Name Interpretation Tom, Ton
Transcribed Age 18
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'0 3/4
Height (in) 60.75
Height (cm) 154.31
Physical Characteristics Tattoo, Tattoo
Transcribed Description Tattoed each side of belly. Dent inside of left knee
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Sherbro
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
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/35; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 3486-3653
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) V46924
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)