Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI006276
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-16
Case Name Seized in the Colony
Register Date
Year 1813
Recaptive Number 4681
Person Name Goama
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 24
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Woman
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'4 1/4
Height (in) 64.25
Height (cm) 163.2
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Scar above left wrist 2 scars inside left knee 1 dᵒ right shin
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 Sierra Leone
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, 4679-4681
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) V60020
Researcher Notes
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