Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI003320
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-5
Case Name Unspecified
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 2360
Person Name Caitan
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 18
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'2
Height (in) 62
Height (cm) 124.46
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Scar down cheeks & temples
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 West Africa (unspecified)
Embarkation Port Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 2353-2362
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.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V60008
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)