Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000830
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3857
Case Name Floridana
Register Date 1810-05-14
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 983
Person Name Bunja
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 19
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'5 3/4
Height (in) 65.75
Height (cm) 167.01
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Small scar left side forehead. dᵒ behind right shoulder. dᵒ behind right thigh. Several dᵒ left side belly
Digits
Disposal
Language Association
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
Travel & Court Related Information
Government Department Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court Condemned Court of Vice Admiralty, Sierra Leone
Embarkation Region Western Savanna
Embarkation Port Gorée
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date 1810-06-22
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-08-02
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 971-1017
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
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7634
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)