Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI014893
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3883
Case Name Esperança Fortuna
Register Date
Year 1817
Recaptive Number
Person Name Unoosa
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 11
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.)
Height (in) 57
Height (cm)
Physical Characteristics Blank
Transcribed Description
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 Bight
Embarkation Port Ouidah
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Cherub
Capture Date 1817-01-17
Arrival Date 1817-04-24
Sentence Date 1817-05-09
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 10583-10990 (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
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7677
Researcher Notes
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