Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI009803
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3852
Case Name Diligente
Register Date
Year 1815
Recaptive Number 6982
Person Name Booa
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 18
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Woman
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'2 1/4
Height (in) 62.25
Height (cm) 158.12
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description 3 cuts left shoulder & 2 dᵒ right dᵒ scar above left 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 Forests of West Africa
Embarkation Port Sestos
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Ulysses
Capture Date 1815-03-19
Arrival Date 1815-04-07
Sentence Date 1815-06-24
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 6964-6985
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) V7621
Researcher Notes
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