Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007614
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3792
Case Name Maria Josefa
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 5961
Person Name Tong
Alternative or Transcribed Name Long
Modern Name Interpretation Tom, Ton
Transcribed Age 12
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'7
Height (in) 55
Height (cm) 139.7
Physical Characteristics Branding, Branding
Transcribed Description Broad [BRAND] side each eye. 2 small cuts below right elbow. Scar small of back
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Sherbro
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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