Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI007978
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 6325
Person Name Finten
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 12
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 Tattoo, Tattoo
Transcribed Description Tattoed small of back: 2 small lumps above hips
Digits
Disposal
Language Association
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
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V60027
Researcher Notes
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