Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI013724
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3841
Case Name Dos Amigos
Register Date
Year 1816
Recaptive Number 9626
Person Name Cudjoe
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Kudjo
Transcribed Age 21
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Man
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'0 1/2
Height (in) 60.5
Height (cm)
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Long scar under left eye - Scar side of left thigh & small of back
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Gbe
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 Bight
Embarkation Port Ouidah
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Inconstant
Capture Date 1816-06-07
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1816-08-06
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 9544-9692 (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 Henry Lovejoy in reference with Adeboye Bablola and Olugboyega Alaba, A Dictionary of Yoruba Personal Names (Lagos: West African Book Publishers Ltd., 2003); Cossi Boniface Gnanguenon, Le dictionaire étymologique des noms propres de personne au Bénin: Langues fon et français (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015). In consultation with Olatunji Ojo, Abubakar Babajo Sani, and Umar Hussein.
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7597
Researcher Notes
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