Candacai
Person Details
| UID | VI002061 |
|---|---|
| LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) | LA-E-3878 |
| Case Name | Elizabeth |
| Register Date | |
| Year | 1811 |
| Recaptive Number | 1497 |
| Person Name | Candacai |
| Alternative or Transcribed Name | Candoers |
| Modern Name Interpretation | |
| Transcribed Age | 9 |
| Age Category | Child (3 to 13 years) |
| Transcribed Sex | B |
| Sex | Male |
| Transcribed Height (ft.) | 4'3 3/4 |
| Height (in) | 51.75 |
| Height (cm) | 131.45 |
| Physical Characteristics | Scarification |
| Transcribed Description | 2 large scars left shoulder blade: dᵒ above left ear: dᵒ above and below left eye |
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Travel & Court Related Information
| Government Department | Colonial and Foreign Offices, Great Britain |
|---|---|
| Court Condemned | Court of Vice Admiralty, Freetown |
| Embarkation Region | Forests of West Africa |
| Embarkation Port | Unknown |
| Disembarkation Region | Rivers of West Africa |
| Disembarkation Port | Freetown |
| Capture Ship | Tigris |
| Capture Date | 1811-04-04 |
| Arrival Date | |
| Sentence Date | 1811-06 |
| Intended Destination Region | Brazil |
| Secondary Migration | Sierra Leone |
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Archival & Source Data
| Source | CO267/31; Sierra Leone Public Archive, Liberated Africans Register, 1465-1551 |
|---|---|
| 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) |
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| Digital Archivists | |
| Voyage ID (Slave Voyages) | V7669 |
| Researcher Notes |