Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI002009
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3824
Case Name Calypso
Register Date 1808
Year 1811
Recaptive Number 1969
Person Name Ajuma
Alternative or Transcribed Name Ajuna
Modern Name Interpretation Ajuma
Transcribed Age 26
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex W
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'1 1/2
Height (in) 61.5
Height (cm) 156.21
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Scar on each cheek: 3 dᵒ left cheek
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
List of Source(s)