Rio Tâmega

In 1839, 242 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 14, Case ID LA-E-3626 occurred via the Juízo de Direito da Comarca, Luanda

Case Details
RegID LA-E-3626
Case Name Rio Tâmega
Year 1839
Government Department Ministério do Ultramar, Reino de Portugal
Court Juízo de Direito da Comarca, Luanda
Trial Outcome Condemned
Enslaved Total 257
Liberated Africans Total 242
Registered Total 0
Notes
Sources Samuël Coghe, "Libertos in Angola MDB Spreadsheet" (donated to Liberated Africans in 2020); Samuël Coghe, “The Problem of Freedom in a Mid Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Slave Society: The Liberated Africans of the Anglo-Portuguese Mixed Commission in Luanda (1844-1870),” Slavery and Abolition 33, no. 1 (2012): 479-500; José C. Curto, “Producing 'Liberated' Africans in Mid-Nineteenth Century Angola,” in Richard Anderson, and Henry B. Lovejoy, Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896 (Rochester: Rochester University Press, 2020), 258; cited as Parliamentary Papers, 1845 [632] XLIX, S. 355; Parliamentary Papers, 1846 [723] L, S. 687–690; "Tabla 1: Apreensões e emancipação de grupos de africanos livres no Brasil (1821-56)," in Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian, Africanos livres: A abolição do tráfico de escravos no Brasil (São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2017), 567-590; Daniela Carvalho Cavalheiro, “Da liberdade para a emancipação: Trabalho, gênero e identidades de africanas livres no Rio de Janeiro oitocentista” (Ph.D. thesis, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 2020); SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2020), Voyage ID: 41878.
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Event Details
X Capture
Y Capture
Ship Status Unknown
Date of departure from a place or port in Africa generally following the purchase of enslaved people. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known.
Region of departure from Africa. Required entry. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. West Central Africa North
Place or port of departure from Africa, if known. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN Benguela
Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. 1839-02
Location
Navy Portugal
Ship Urânia
Captain
Supporting Ships
Sentence Date
Date of arrival to the place where the trial, purchase, or asylum occurred, resulting in "liberation" and indenture. Includes YYYY-MM-DD, if known.
Region of arrival around the world. Required field. For more information about the geographical hierarchy used in this digital resource, please refer to AfricanRegions.org. Other regions outside of Africa include, Western Europe, East Coast of North America, etc. West Central Africa North
Place or port of arrival around the world. Required field. A controlled vocabulary for place names are associated with geographic coordinates using Google Maps Global Mercator EPSG:900913. See https://epsg.io/transform#s_srs=4326&t_srs=900913&x=NaN&y=NaN Luanda
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