Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI006160
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-12
Case Name Unspecified
Register Date
Year 1813
Recaptive Number 4565
Person Name Sewa
Alternative or Transcribed Name Srwa
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 8
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex G
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'3
Height (in) 51
Height (cm) 129.54
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Scar on right eye. Scar close to left elbow
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 Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Grand Mesurado
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Thais
Capture Date 1813-06-27
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1813-07-12
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 4338-4570
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) V60016
Researcher Notes
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