Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001216
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3869
Case Name Herrmosa Rita
Register Date 1808
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1138
Person Name Boy
Alternative or Transcribed Name
Modern Name Interpretation Boi
Transcribed Age 17
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex W
Sex Female
Transcribed Height (ft.) 4'11 1/2
Height (in) 59.5
Height (cm) 151.13
Physical Characteristics Scarification, Vitiligo
Transcribed Description Hand & part of feet white; belly scarified. 2 broad scars each side face: back scarified
Digits
Disposal
Language Association Mende or Sherbro
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 Died
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 SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2024)
Digital Archivists
Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) V7658
Researcher Notes
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