Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007904
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3793
Case Name Dolores (a) Volador
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 6251
Person Name Bessay
Alternative or Transcribed Name Belsay
Modern Name Interpretation Gbese
Transcribed Age 13
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex B
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'8 1/2
Height (in) 56.5
Height (cm) 143.51
Physical Characteristics Tattoo
Transcribed Description Black tattoes on each arm. 1 faint long cut above right eye
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Temne
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 Cape Mount
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Princess Charlotte
Capture Date 1814-09-18
Arrival Date 1814-10-03
Sentence Date 1814-10-11
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 6239-6273 (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) V7524
Researcher Notes
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