In 1846, 176 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-3709 occurred via the Tribunal de Julgamento das Prezas por Tráfico de Escravatura, Luanda
| RegID | LA-E-3709 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Flor de Campos |
| Year | 1846 |
| Government Department | Ministério do Ultramar, Reino de Portugal |
| Court | Tribunal de Julgamento das Prezas por Tráfico de Escravatura, Luanda |
| Trial Outcome | Condemned |
| Enslaved Total | 195 |
| Liberated Africans Total | 176 |
| Registered Total | 33 |
| Notes | 33 people registered and sent to São Tomé |
| Sources | Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, Angola, Pasta 12, "Lista de 33 Libertos adultos dos apresados na Sumaca "Flor de Campos" que forão mandados apresentar ao Governor de São Tome," Samuël Coghe, "Libertos in Angola MDB Spreadsheet" (donated to Liberated Africans in 2020); "Anexo C: Apresamentos, destruições ou afundamentos de embarcações negreiras, efectuados pela Armada portuguesa entre 1839 e 1867," and "Anexo D: Apresamento de navios negreiros efectuado por di-versas autoridades administrativas e portuárias entre 1837 e 1870," in João Pedro Marques, Os Sons do Silêncio: o Portugal de Oitocentos e a Abolição do Tráfico de Escravos (Lisboa: Imprensa das Ciências Sociais, 1999), 485-489; 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; SlaveVoyages, www.slavevoyages.org (accessed 2020), Voyage ID: 4728. |
| Cite as |
| X Capture | 1486089.786281 |
|---|---|
| Y Capture | -1396350.904920 |
| Ship Status | Liberated Africans |
| 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. | 1846-10-30 |
| Location | Benguela |
| Navy | Portugal |
| Ship | Tâmega |
| Captain | Esteves |
| Supporting Ships | |
| Sentence Date | Benguela |
| 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 |