Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000569
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3790
Case Name Cuba (a) Marianna
Register Date 1809-11-17
Year 1809
Recaptive Number 273
Person Name Musah Kontee
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Musa
Transcribed Age 20
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'3
Height (in) 63
Height (cm) 160.02
Physical Characteristics Smallpox
Transcribed Description Lightly pittied with small pox
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Muslim
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 Gorée
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1809-11-17
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 249-358
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 SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7521
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)