Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI015992
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3140
Case Name Esperanza
Register Date
Year 1819
Recaptive Number
Person Name Whoyo
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 37
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.)
Height (in) 60
Height (cm)
Physical Characteristics Blank
Transcribed Description
Digits
Disposal
Language Association
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
Travel & Court Related Information
Government Department Courts of Mixed Commission
Court Condemned British and Spanish Court of Mixed Commission, Freetown
Embarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Sestos
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Morgiana
Capture Date 1819-12-10
Arrival Date 1819-12-23
Sentence Date 1819-12-27
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Bathurst/Leopold
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source The National Archives, UK, FO84/4; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 10115-15143; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 11909-15967
Digitization The National Archives, UK; 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) V2316
Researcher Notes
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