Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000463
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-1
Case Name Seized in the Colony
Register Date 1809-11-06
Year 1809
Recaptive Number 168
Person Name William
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 11
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) [N/D]
Height (in)
Height (cm)
Physical Characteristics Dented
Transcribed Description Small dent by right ear
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to Anthony Davies (Trader)
Language Association Multiethnic
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)