Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI005283
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3774
Case Name Dezengano
Register Date
Year 1812
Recaptive Number
Person Name Topwa
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 22
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.)
Height (in) 67
Height (cm)
Physical Characteristics No Entry
Transcribed Description
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 Bight
Embarkation Port Porto Novo
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Amelia
Capture Date 1812-01-06
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1812-03-07
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source The National Archives, UK, FO84/135; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 2191-2213
Digitization The National Archives, UK; 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) V7502
Researcher Notes
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