Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007820
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3783
Case Name Bom Sucesso
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 6167
Person Name Mama
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Mamman
Transcribed Age 13
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 Scarification
Transcribed Description 2 scars right side nose. face full with very fine scars
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Muslim
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 Western Bight
Embarkation Port Lagos
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Creole
Capture Date 1814-07-02
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1814-08-30
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 5988-6238 (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 Henry Lovejoy in reference with Adeboye Bablola and Olugboyega Alaba, A Dictionary of Yoruba Personal Names (Lagos: West African Book Publishers Ltd., 2003); Cossi Boniface Gnanguenon, Le dictionaire étymologique des noms propres de personne au Bénin: Langues fon et français (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2015). In consultation with Olatunji Ojo, Abubakar Babajo Sani, and Umar Hussein.
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7511
Researcher Notes
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