Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000986
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3811
Case Name Doris
Register Date 1808
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 528
Person Name Mousa Coota
Alternative or Transcribed Name Musa Coota
Modern Name Interpretation Mussa Kuta
Transcribed Age 20
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex W
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'7 1/2
Height (in) 55.5
Height (cm) 140.97
Physical Characteristics Scarification
Transcribed Description Cut under left ear several dᵒ forehead
Digits
Disposal Settled in the Colony
Language Association Muslim
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 Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location
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 SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7554
Researcher Notes
List of Source(s)