Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI006188
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3863
Case Name São Josef
Register Date
Year 1813
Recaptive Number 4593
Person Name Tega
Alternative or Transcribed Name Jega X
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 14
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'10
Height (in) 58
Height (cm) 147.32
Physical Characteristics Tattoo, Tattoo
Transcribed Description Large scar right side forehead. Tattoos down belly
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 Eastern Bight
Embarkation Port Calabar
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Favourite
Capture Date 1813-09-01
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1813-11-01
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/38; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 4571-4618
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) V7647
Researcher Notes
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