Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI004657
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-9
Case Name Unspecified
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number 3697
Person Name Coomba
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 19
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'2
Height (in) 62
Height (cm) 157.48
Physical Characteristics Tattoo, Tattoo
Transcribed Description Tattoos from temples to eyes & faintly dᵒ above navel. round scar back of right thigh
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 Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 3654-3772
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) V60013
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)