Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI009781
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3861
Case Name General Silveira
Register Date
Year 1815
Recaptive Number 6960
Person Name Manga
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 12
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex G
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'6
Height (in) 54
Height (cm) 137.16
Physical Characteristics Complexion Yellowish, Complexion Yellowish, Complexion Yellowish
Transcribed Description Yellow complecion: dent side hip: dᵒ forehead: cut close right elbow
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, 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
Specific Location
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)
Name Interpreter
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7644
Researcher Notes
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