Courts & Cases

Taken by the Expedition in the River Gambia

In 1813, 2 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 1, Case ID LA-E-17 occurred via the Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown.

Case Details

UID	LA-E-17
Case Name	Taken by the Expedition in the River Gambia
Year	1813
Government Department	Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court	Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown
Trial Outcome	Condemned
Enslaved Total	2
Liberated Africans Total	2
Registered Total	2
Notes
Sources	Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, #4682 - 4683; "African Names Database," in SlaveVoyages, https://www.slavevoyages.org/past/database/african-origins (accessed 2021).
Cite as:	Lovejoy, H. B. (2024). Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920. Past & Present, 1-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae019 Chadha, K. (2024). Regenerated Identities: A Collaborative Web-based Content Management System for Digital Humanities. International Journal of Computer Applications, 186(29), 28–33. https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume186/number29/regenerated-identities-a-collaborative-web-based-content-management-system-for-digital-humanities/

Event Details

UID	LA-E-17
Case Name	Taken by the Expedition in the River Gambia

Departure from Africa

Date
Region	Western Savanna
Place	The Gambia
Enslaved Total	2

Capture

Date
Location	Rivers Gambia
Navy	Britain
Ship
Captain
Supporting Ships

Trial

Sentence Date
Government Department	Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court	Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown
Trial Outcome	Condemned
Date
Region	Rivers of West Africa
Place	Freetown
Liberated Africans	2
Registered	2

People Details

UI	Name	Age	Sex	Height (ft)
VI006277	Mansa	36	Man	5'7 1/2	View Details
VI006278			M	[N/D]	View Details

List of Source(s)

Source Details

UID (Sources): LA-OB-66
Year: 1813
Case Name Associator: Taken by the Expedition in the River Gambia
Title: Taken by the Expedition in the River Gambia
Creator: Unspecified
Creator Title: Unspecified
Description: Register of 2 people
Publisher: British Library Endangered Archive Programme (Projects Numbers: EAP284, EAP443, EAP782)
Contributor: Unspecified
Court: Court of Vice Admiralty, Sierra Leone
Date Original: 1813
Date Range: Unspecified
Language: English
Date Digital: 2010-2016
Resource Type: Text
Source: Sierra Leone Public Archives, SLR4682-4683
Rights Management: See Rights Management and Use Permissions section at liberatedafricans.org
Contributing Institution: University of Colorado Boulder; York University; University of Worcester; MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities and Social Sciences at Michigan State University; The British Library
Object Type: Register
Event Associator: AND500021
Researcher: Lovejoy, Henry B.
Notes: Unspecified
African Region: West Africa
Africa Project: Sierra Leone Public Archive
File_Name: 1813 Taken in the Expedition in the River Gambia SL500021 SLR4682-4683.pdf
Format: PDF