Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001913
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3887
Case Name Casilda (a) Nuestra Señora de los Dolores
Register Date 1808
Year 1811
Recaptive Number 1674
Person Name Dua
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 15
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'10
Height (in) 58
Height (cm) 147.32
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Large scar under front of right side, 2 dᵒ on right hips
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 Savanna
Embarkation Port The Gambia
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Myrtle
Capture Date 1811-05-15
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1811-06-06
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, 1637-1747
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) V7692
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)