Auoco
Person Details
| UID | VI018051 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-3342 |
| Case Name | Adelaide |
| Register Date | |
| Year | 1821 |
| Recaptive Number | |
| Person Name | Auoco |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | |
| Modern Name Interpretation | Awoku |
| Transcribed Age | 36 |
| Age Category | Adult (14 to 40 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | |
| Sex | Female |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | |
| Height (in) | 67 |
| Height (cm) | |
| Physical Characteristics | Blank |
| Transcribed Description | |
| Digits | |
| Disposal | |
| Language Association | Yoruba |
| Documented African Nation | |
| Possible Dialect |
Travel & Court Related Information
| Government Department | Courts of Mixed Commission |
|---|---|
| Court Condemned | British and Portuguese Court of Mixed Commission, Freetown |
| Embarkation Region | Western Bight |
| Embarkation Port | Badagry |
| Disembarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Disembarkation Port | Freetown |
| Capture Ship | Pheasant; Myrmidon |
| Capture Date | 1821-07-25 |
| Arrival Date | 1821-09-15 |
| Sentence Date | 1821-09-17 |
| Intended Destination Region | Brazil |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
| Post Disembarkation | Gloucester |
| Specific Location |
Archival & Source Data
| Source | The National Archives, UK, FO84/15; 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 | 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) | V2912 |
| Researcher Notes |
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