Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI002161
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3823
Case Name Havanna
Register Date
Year 1811
Recaptive Number 1802
Person Name Dro
Alternative or Transcribed Name Dao
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 18
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'1 3/4
Height (in) 61.75
Height (cm) 156.85
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Broad arrow down forehead, several scars down shin
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 Bight
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Thais
Capture Date 1811-07-27
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1811-08-26
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Bance Island
Specific Location African recruitment center
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1763-1860
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) V7573
Researcher Notes
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