Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI010537
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-27
Case Name Seized at the Bananas and the Settlement of Goree and Senegal
Register Date
Year 1815
Recaptive Number 7858
Person Name Tafui
Alternative or Transcribed Name Tapei
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 30
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex W
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'10
Height (in) 58
Height (cm) 147
Physical Characteristics Tattoo
Transcribed Description Tattoes over right elbow: dᵒ ea side face: much at behind right shoulder: & tattoed behind left dᵒ
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 Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date 1815-10-28
Sentence Date 1815-11-09
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 7844-7860
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) V60032
Researcher Notes
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