Taqua
Person Details
| UID | VI002000 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-3824 |
| Case Name | Calypso |
| Register Date | 1808 |
| Year | 1811 |
| Recaptive Number | 1960 |
| Person Name | Taqua |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | |
| Modern Name Interpretation | Tarquah |
| Transcribed Age | 12 |
| Age Category | Child (3 to 13 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | B |
| Sex | Male |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | 4'6 |
| Height (in) | 54 |
| Height (cm) | 137.16 |
| Physical Characteristics | Scarification |
| Transcribed Description | 3 large round scars on each side arm |
| Digits | |
| Disposal | |
| Language Association | Yoruba |
| 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 | Lagos |
| Disembarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Disembarkation Port | Freetown |
| Capture Ship | Thais |
| Capture Date | 1811-09-01 |
| Arrival Date | |
| Sentence Date | 1811-10-29 |
| Intended Destination Region | Brazil |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
| Post Disembarkation | |
| Specific Location |
Archival & Source Data
| Source | CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1958-1970 |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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) | V7574 |
| Researcher Notes |