Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI002236
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3830
Case Name Paquette Volante
Register Date
Year 1811
Recaptive Number 1877
Person Name Zaou
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Nzowu
Transcribed Age 16
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'11 1/2
Height (in) 59.5
Height (cm) 151.13
Physical Characteristics Lumps
Transcribed Description Lumps from ea shoulder to navel and to back, scar left cheek
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Kongo
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 West Central Africa North
Embarkation Port Cabinda
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Tigris
Capture Date 1811-08-06
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1811-10-16
Intended Destination Region Cuba
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, 1861-1898
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 SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7582
Researcher Notes
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