Esuma
Person Details
| UID | VI013089 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-3837 |
| Case Name | Santo Antônio Milagroso |
| Register Date | |
| Year | 1816 |
| Recaptive Number | 8788 |
| Person Name | Esuma |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | Csuuma |
| Modern Name Interpretation | Essomba |
| Transcribed Age | 40 |
| Age Category | Adult (14 to 40 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | |
| Sex | Male |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | 5'9 1/2 |
| Height (in) | 70 |
| Height (cm) | |
| Physical Characteristics | Scarification |
| Transcribed Description | Faint scars above navel: left ear cut scar on upper lip: scar left side left eye |
| Digits | |
| Disposal | |
| Language Association | Ewondo |
| 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 | Eastern Bight |
| Embarkation Port | Cameroons |
| Disembarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Disembarkation Port | Freetown |
| Capture Ship | Bann |
| Capture Date | 1816-03-15 |
| Arrival Date | 1816-04-17 |
| Sentence Date | 1816-05-13 |
| Intended Destination Region | Brazil |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
| Post Disembarkation | Freetown |
| Specific Location |
Archival & Source Data
| Source | Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 8703-9207 (two copies) |
|---|---|
| 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 | SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024) |
| Digital Archivists | |
| Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) | V7590 |
| Researcher Notes |
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