Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000916
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3810
Case Name Santiago
Register Date 1810-05-14
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1070
Person Name Boy
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Boi
Transcribed Age 8
Age Category Child (3 to 13 years)
Transcribed Sex G
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'1 3/2
Height (in) 49.75
Height (cm) 126.37
Physical Characteristics Scarification, Scarification
Transcribed Description Faint broad arrow side each eye. small dent right cheek: scar above right ancle
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Mende or Sherbro
Documented African Nation
Possible Dialect
Travel & Court Related Information
Government Department Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court Condemned Court of Vice Admiralty, Sierra Leone
Embarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Embarkation Port Scarcies River
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Crocodile
Capture Date 1810-08-04
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-08-14
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation Freetown
Specific Location
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1018-1074
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. Padraic Scanlan donated materials from CO267.
Transcription SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Name Interpreter SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7553
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)