In 1861, 409 enslaved African(s) were “liberated” in a state-run scheme usually resulting in involuntary indentures, conscription, or re-enslavement. Under the jurisdiction of 3, Case ID LA-E-794 occurred via the British Consular Court, Lagos
| RegID | LA-E-794 |
|---|---|
| Case Name | Lagos Consulate Liberations |
| Year | 1861 |
| Government Department | Consular Courts |
| Court | British Consular Court, Lagos |
| Trial Outcome | Asylum |
| Enslaved Total | 409 |
| Liberated Africans Total | 409 |
| Registered Total | 0 |
| Notes | The return shows little details about the individuals, except for listing apprenticeships at 99 men, 90 women, 109 boys, and 75 girls. It also includes 31 free men, 91 free women and 4 free boys, who were not counted in this dataset total since a distinction was made in the original document. Consular Henry Grant Foote wrote, "At Lagos I have succeeded in liberating nearly two hundred slaves since my arrival, all of them slaves of Sierra Leone people, but I was obliged to apprentice these slaves for two years to their late masters." |
| Sources | The National Archives, UK, FO 84/1141, "Foote to Wylde," 6 Apr. 1861. f. 258-259; The National Archives, UK, FO 84/1141, "Return of Slaves liberated and apprenticed through the intervention of Henry Grant Foote Esquire Here Britannic Majesty Counsul," 12 Mar. - 30 Apr. 1861, f. 331; E. Adeniyi Oroge, "The Institution of Slavery in Yorubaland with Particular Reference to the Nineteenth Century (Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham, 1971), 332-358; Kristin Mann, Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760-1900 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007), 167. |
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| 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. | Western Bight |
| 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 | Lagos |
| Capture date at sea or on land, if known. Date of the sentence. Include YYYY-MM-DD, if known. | 1860-04-12 |
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| Sentence Date | 1861-04-30 |
| 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. | Western Bight |
| 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 | Lagos |