Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007949
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-22
Case Name Seized by Major Appleton in the Rio Nunez
Register Date
Year 1814
Recaptive Number 6296
Person Name Massa
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Masa
Transcribed Age 36
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex Man
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'5
Height (in) 65
Height (cm) 165.1
Physical Characteristics Skeletal Abnormalities, Skeletal Abnormalities
Transcribed Description Scar left breast: dᵒ right shin: knees bent inwards
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Mende
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 Nunez
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship
Capture Date
Arrival Date 1814-10-24
Sentence Date 1814-11-14
Intended Destination Region
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 6275-6288 (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) V60027
Researcher Notes
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