Dois de Fevereiro

In 1841, 156 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 1, Case ID LA-E-3130 occurred via the Court of Vice Admiralty, Guiana

Case Details
RegID LA-E-3130
Case Name Dois de Fevereiro
Year 1841
Government Department Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain
Court Court of Vice Admiralty, Guiana
Trial Outcome Condemned
Enslaved Total 375
Liberated Africans Total 156
Registered Total 0
Notes
Sources "A Return of all Vessels, their Names and Tonnage, Captured (on suspicion of being engaged in Slave Trade)," 1840-1848, in “Report from the Select Committe of the House of Lords, Appointed to Consider the best Means which Great Britain can adopt for the final Extinction of the African Slave Trade... Session 1850,” in T. P. O'Neill, T. F. Turley, et al., eds., Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vol. 6 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968-1969), 212-228; "Return of all Vessels captured on suspicion of being engaged in Slave Trade, and adjudicated by the Vice-Admiralty Court at British Guiana," 24 Aug. 1839 - 30 Jun. 1847, in “Class A. Correspondence with the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, Havana, the Cape of Good Hope, Luanda, and the Cape Verd Islands... 1849,” in T. P. O'Neill, T. F. Turley, et al., eds., Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vol. 37 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968-1969), 217-219; SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2020), Voyage ID: 2056.
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Event Details
X Capture -4452779.631730943
Y Capture -2391878.5879443143
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 South
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 Benguela
Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. 1841-02-19
Location 21°0'0" S., 40°0'0" W.; 25 miles W., 1/2 S. from Campos
Navy Britain
Ship Fawn
Captain
Supporting Ships
Sentence Date 1841-06-17
Date of arrival to the place where the trial, purchase, or asylum occurred, resulting in "liberation" and indenture. Includes YYYY-MM-DD, if known. 1841-02-23
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. Caribbean
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 Guiana
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