Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI010521
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-26
Case Name Seized at Gorée in Senegal
Register Date
Year 1815
Recaptive Number 7700
Person Name Samba
Alternative or Transcribed Name Samla
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 22
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 6'0 1/2
Height (in) 73
Height (cm) 185
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Faint scar right side scar d[itto] small below left arm and back of right arm
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 Western Savanna
Embarkation Port Gorée
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1815-05-15
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 7697-7701
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) V60031
Researcher Notes
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