In 1847, 294 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 8, Case ID LA-E-3315 occurred via the Gouverneur en Koloniale Raad, Suriname
| RegID | LA-E-3315 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Légère |
| Year | 1847 |
| Government Department | Ministerie van Koloniën, Koninkrijk der Nederlanden |
| Court | Gouverneur en Koloniale Raad, Suriname |
| Trial Outcome | Condemned |
| Enslaved Total | 354 |
| Liberated Africans Total | 294 |
| Registered Total | 205 |
| Notes | By 1847, the Dutch government freed the 29 slaves of La Nueve de Snauw who were still alive, their 10 relatives (they had married since 1823), and 417 "kidnapped Africans" of other illegal slave ships, most especially the French vessel La Légère, most of whom were able to escape before the vessel had been turned over to a French court. Finally, the British judges wanted the liberation of the "Barbados Negroes" - in general, those enslaved people who had come with (or without) their English masters to the Dutch colony just before emancipation in 1833. For register see: https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.05.11.13/invnr/521A/file/NL-HaNA_1.05.11.13_521A_0023. |
| Sources | Nationaal Archief, Nederland, Archief van de Commissie tot de Zaken der Nieuwe Wees-, Curatele- en Onbeheerde Boedelkamer en haar Opvolgers, 1.05.11.13/521A, "Generale sterkte der Gouvernements slaven," 1 Jan. 1833, (no folio numbers in this volume); "Lance to Canning," 20 Sep. 1823, in “Class B. Correspondence with the British Commissioners at Sierra Leone, the Havanna, Rio de Janeiro, and Surinam, relating to the Slave Trade, 1823-1824,” in T. P. O'Neill, T. F. Turley, et al., eds., Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, vol. 9 (Shannon: Irish University Press, 1968-1969), 190; Pieter C. Emmer, “Abolition of the Abolished: The Illegal Dutch Slave Trade and the Mixed Courts,” in David Eltis, and James Walvin, eds., The Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Origins and Effects in Europe, Africa, and the Americas, (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1981), 184; SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2020), Voyage ID: 2762. |
| Cite as |
| X Capture | -6150663.244306 |
|---|---|
| Y Capture | 668064.521160 |
| 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. | 1823 |
| Region of departure from Africa. Required entry. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. | Eastern Bight |
| 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 | Bonny |
| Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | 1823-09-10 |
| Location | At anchor off the coast near Paramaribo |
| Navy | Britain |
| Ship | Forte |
| Captain | Cochrane |
| Supporting Ships | |
| Sentence Date | 1847 |
| Date of arrival to the place where the trial, purchase, or asylum occurred, resulting in "liberation" and indenture. Includes YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | 1824 |
| 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. | North 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 | Paramaribo |