Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI004105
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3777
Case Name São João
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 3145
Person Name Antonio
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 28
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'5 1/4
Height (in) 65
Height (cm) 165.74
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Scarred on face: 2 large scars acrosss each cheel: scar side left eye
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 Voltaic
Embarkation Port Cape Coast
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Amelia
Capture Date 1811-12-31
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-03-25
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/35; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 3143-3153
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) V7505
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)