Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007018
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3801
Case Name Nossa Senhora da Víctoria
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 5365
Person Name Benin
Alternative or Transcribed Name Bemn
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 30
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'2
Height (in) 62
Height (cm) 157.48
Physical Characteristics Moles, Moles
Transcribed Description Moles upper lip. Shot behind left shoulder. Scar below left knee
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 Bissau
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Princess Charlotte
Capture Date 1814-05-12
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1814-05-28
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 4987-5420
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) V7537
Researcher Notes
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