Angélica

In 1835, 317 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 15, Case ID LA-E-3096 occurred via the Juiz Municipal, Rio de Janeiro

Case Details
RegID LA-E-3096
Case Name Angélica
Year 1835
Government Department Poder Judiciário e Marinha, Império do Brasil
Court Juiz Municipal, Rio de Janeiro
Trial Outcome Condemned
Enslaved Total 352
Liberated Africans Total 317
Registered Total 0
Notes Not clear how many were emancipated exactly, since the documentation and the people from the Angélica and Mizade Feliz were mixed together
Sources "Return of Vessels adjudicated by the British and Brazilian Court of Mixed Commission at Rio de Janeiro," 1 Jan. 1835 - 1 Jul. 1835, in “Class A. Correspondence with the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, the Havannah, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam, relating to the Slave Trade, 1835,” in T. P. O'Neill, T. F. Turley, et al., eds., Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vol. 14 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968-1969), 281; "Tabla 1: Apreensões e emancipação de grupos de africanos livres no Brasil (1821-56)," in Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian, Africanos livres: A abolição do tráfico de escravos no Brasil (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2017), 567-590; SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2020), Voyage ID: 1422.
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Event Details
X Capture -4914671.607652
Y Capture -2644229.229598
Ship Status Liberated Africans
Date of departure from a place or port in Africa generally following the purchase of enslaved people. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known.
Region of departure from Africa. Required entry. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. West Central Africa North
Place or port of departure from Africa, if known. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN Ambriz
Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. 1835-03-17
Location Off of Ilha Grande
Navy Portugal
Ship Dous de Março
Captain
Supporting Ships
Sentence Date 1835-06-17
Date of arrival to the place where the trial, purchase, or asylum occurred, resulting in "liberation" and indenture. Includes YYYY-MM-DD, if known.
Region of arrival around the world. Required field. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. Other regions outside of Africa include, Western Europe, East Coast of North America, etc. East Coast South America
Place or port of arrival around the world. Required field. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN Rio de Janeiro
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