Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI004330
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3876
Case Name Hope
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 3370
Person Name Birum
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 50
Age Category Old person (Over 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'4 1/4
Height (in) 64.25
Height (cm) 163.2
Physical Characteristics Pitted/Pockmarked
Transcribed Description Pockmarked: large scar above right 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 Western Savanna
Embarkation Port The Gambia
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-07-16
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/35; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 3341-3407
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) V7667
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)