Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001215
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3869
Case Name Herrmosa Rita
Register Date 1808
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1137
Person Name Beanta
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 24
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex W
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'10 1/2
Height (in) 58.5
Height (cm) 148.59
Physical Characteristics Dented, Unspecified Mark
Transcribed Description Small dent right side forehead: small mark top of nose
Digits
Disposal
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 Dart
Capture Date 1810-08-04
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-09-17
Intended Destination Region Cuba
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location Returned runaway
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1075-1151
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) V7658
Researcher Notes
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