Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007440
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3782
Case Name Gertrudis (a) la Preciosa
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 5787
Person Name Obong
Alternative or Transcribed Name Obrong
Modern Name Interpretation Obong
Transcribed Age 10
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'0
Height (in) 48
Height (cm) 121.92
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description Scar back right shoulder. Scar side eyes round scar left hip
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Efik
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 Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Creole
Capture Date 1814-06-09
Arrival Date 1814-07-01
Sentence Date 1814-07-08
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 5446-5925 (two copies)
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) V7510
Researcher Notes
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