Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001024
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3812
Case Name Mariana
Register Date 1808
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 566
Person Name Baru
Alternative or Transcribed Name Bara
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 27
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'5
Height (in) 65
Height (cm) 165.1
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description 2 broad scars ea side face. Round scar side right thigh
Digits
Disposal Settled in the Colony
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 Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Crocodile
Capture Date 1810-04-28
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-05-02
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, 1-3772
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. Padraic Scanlan donated materials from CO267.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7556
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)