Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007599
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3792
Case Name Maria Josefa
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 5946
Person Name Sessy
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Sese
Transcribed Age 23
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'3 1/2
Height (in) 63.5
Height (cm) 161.29
Physical Characteristics Unspecified Scars
Transcribed Description 1 scar forehead. 1 faint dᵒ right side dᵒ 2 scars left side face
Digits
Disposal
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 Galinhas
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Princess Charlotte
Capture Date 1814-07-03
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1814-07-21
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 5926-5987 (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) V7523
Researcher Notes
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