Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI001713
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3867
Case Name Maria
Register Date
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1424
Person Name Sacoula
Alternative or Transcribed Name Lacoula
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 17
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'2
Height (in) 62
Height (cm) 157.48
Physical Characteristics Dented
Transcribed Description Round dent side of right eye, dent on forehead, scar right ancle
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 Protector
Capture Date 1810-11-03
Arrival Date
Sentence Date 1810-11-21
Intended Destination Region Brazil
Secondary Migration Sierra Leone
Post Disembarkation
Specific Location Ran away
Archival & Source Data
Source CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1419-1446
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) V7654
Researcher Notes
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