Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000965
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3811
Case Name Doris
Register Date 1808
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 507
Person Name Canley
Alternative or Transcribed Name Cauley
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 14
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'0
Height (in) 60
Height (cm) 152.4
Physical Characteristics Skeletal Abnormalities
Transcribed Description Curious great & second toes right foot
Digits
Disposal Apprenticed to Richard Green 26th April 1810 Sa..{page torn}
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 Unknown
Disembarkation Region Rivers of West Africa
Disembarkation Port Freetown
Capture Ship Crocodile
Capture Date 1810-04-10
Arrival Date 1810-04-21
Sentence Date 1810-07-17
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration British Caribbean
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location West India Regiment
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 488-545
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
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7554
Researcher Notes
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