Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000714
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3833
Case Name Lucia (a) Albert
Register Date 1810-04-09
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 410
Person Name Maca
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Maka
Transcribed Age 14
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'9
Height (in) 57
Height (cm) 144.78
Physical Characteristics Burned
Transcribed Description Large burn below right knee
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to Alexander Torrance 26th Apr. 1810
Language Association Multiethnic
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 Rio Pongo
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Tigris
Capture Date 1810-08-29
Arrival Date 1810-04-09
Sentence Date 1810-09-17
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 358-487
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 SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7585
Researcher Notes
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