Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000781
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3833
Case Name Lucia (a) Albert
Register Date 1810-04-09
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 477
Person Name Coomba
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Kumba
Transcribed Age 10
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex G
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'6
Height (in) 54
Height (cm) 137.16
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Broad scar right cheek & Scar on left shoulder
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to George Nicol Esq. 16 Apr 1810
Language Association Kissi or Kono
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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