Afuda
Person Details
| UID | VI007869 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-3783 |
| Case Name | Bom Sucesso |
| Register Date | |
| Year | 1814 |
| Recaptive Number | 6216 |
| Person Name | Afuda |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | |
| Modern Name Interpretation | Efunda |
| Transcribed Age | 17 |
| Age Category | Adult (14 to 40 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | W |
| Sex | Female |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | 5'0 1/2 |
| Height (in) | 60.5 |
| Height (cm) | 153.67 |
| Physical Characteristics | Scarification, Scarification, Scarification |
| Transcribed Description | Scar forehead: 1 lump near right ear. [MARK] near right eye. Long scars on belly |
| 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 | Creole |
| Capture Date | 1814-07-02 |
| Arrival Date | |
| Sentence Date | 1814-08-30 |
| Intended Destination Region | Brazil |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
| Post Disembarkation | Freetown |
| Specific Location |
Archival & Source Data
| Source | Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 5988-6238 (two copies) |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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) | V7511 |
| Researcher Notes |
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