Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000304
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3802
Case Name Marie Paul
Register Date 1808-11-08
Year 1808
Recaptive Number 9
Person Name Billal
Alternative or Transcribed Name Billall
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 20
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'6
Height (in) 66
Height (cm) 167.64
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Mark
Transcribed Description Left ear slit
Digits
Disposal Colonists and Soldiers in the Colonial Militia, at present employed in the Service by Government in cutting around to their place of settlement: have 2 acres of land each live with their wives in or temporary settlement in the neighbourhood of their employment: are distinguishable from the Colonists by being more loyal, orderly and respectful: receieve the lowest wage in the Colony (9d per day) no other Capacities.
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 Saint-Louis
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Derwent
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1808-11-10
Intended Destination Region French Caribbean
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location Public works
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/24; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1-60
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) V7539
Researcher Notes
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