Tombay
Person Details
| UID | VI009660 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-3861 |
| Case Name | General Silveira |
| Register Date | |
| Year | 1815 |
| Recaptive Number | 6839 |
| Person Name | Tombay |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | |
| Modern Name Interpretation | |
| Transcribed Age | 5 |
| Age Category | Child (3 to 13 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | B |
| Sex | Male |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | 4'8 |
| Height (in) | 56 |
| Height (cm) | 142.24 |
| Physical Characteristics | Scarification |
| Transcribed Description | Scar over right eye: 2 dᵒ left tits: 2 round dᵒ above dᵒ |
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| Disposal | |
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Travel & Court Related Information
| Government Department | Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain |
|---|---|
| Court Condemned | Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown |
| Embarkation Region | Eastern Bight |
| Embarkation Port | Cameroons |
| Disembarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Disembarkation Port | Freetown |
| Capture Ship | Brisk |
| Capture Date | |
| Arrival Date | 1815-03-29 |
| Sentence Date | 1815-06-21 |
| Intended Destination Region | Cuba |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
| Post Disembarkation | Freetown |
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Archival & Source Data
| Source | Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 6726-6963 |
|---|---|
| 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) |
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| Digital Archivists | |
| Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) | V7644 |
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