Digital Identity


Person Details
UID VI000940
LA-E-ID (Liberated Africans connector) LA-E-3869
Case Name Herrmosa Rita
Register Date 1810-05-14
Year 1810
Recaptive Number 1094
Person Name Sobaca
Alternative or Transcribed Name dobou
Modern Name Interpretation
Transcribed Age 32
Age Category Adult (14 to 40 years)
Transcribed Sex M
Sex Male
Transcribed Height (ft.) 5'8
Height (in) 68
Height (cm) 172.72
Physical Characteristics Scarification, Lumps, Disease Indicator
Transcribed Description Back of neck scarrified "ɔɔɔccc", large internal lump breast right side
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, Sierra Leone
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
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
List of Source(s)