Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000374
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3806
Case Name Africaan
Register Date 1809-05-30
Year 1809
Recaptive Number 79
Person Name Sippey
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 16
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Man
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'9 1/2
Height (in) 57.5
Height (cm) 146.05
Physical Characteristics Tattoo
Transcribed Description Tattooed with an arch on left cheek, temple, cheek [...] forehead & chin faint tattooed
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to Ann Fife
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 Voltaic
Embarkation Port Accra
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Derwent
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1809-05-30
Intended Destination Region Dutch Caribbean
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1-3770
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) V7543
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)