Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000356
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3803
Case Name São Joaquim
Register Date 1808-11-24
Year 1808
Recaptive Number 61
Person Name Lewis
Alternative or Transcribed Name Sievis
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 26
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 6'0
Height (in) 72
Height (cm) 182.88
Physical Characteristics Tattoo
Transcribed Description left arm slightly tattoed
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to John Bucknor (Maroon)
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 Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Rio Pongo
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Derwent
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1808-11-24
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/24; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 61-74
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) V7540
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)