Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001470
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3851
Case Name Esperança
Register Date
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 808
Person Name Ropang
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 21
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex W
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'8 3/4
Height (in) 56.75
Height (cm) 144.15
Physical Characteristics Scarification, Scarification
Transcribed Description Dent side each eye; Broad arrow between eyelids scarifications between breasts
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 Sherbro
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Crocodile
Capture Date 1810-04-23
Arrival Date 1810-05-10
Sentence Date 1810-05-14
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 732-822
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) V7619
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)