Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI006277
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-17
Case Name Taken by the Expedition in the River Gambia
Register Date
Year 1813
Recaptive Number 4682
Person Name Mansa
Alternative or Transcribed Name Mousa
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 36
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Man
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'7 1/2
Height (in) 67.5
Height (cm) 171.45
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Thick under lip large navel scar on dᵒ scar top of right foot
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 Savanna
Embarkation Port The Gambia
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, 4682-4683
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) V60021
Researcher Notes
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