Image Detail
Previous 156 / 171 Next
The Schooner ""Sierra del Pilar"" was captured at sea by British cruisers and adjudicated at a court established at Havana under international anti-slave trade treaties. The image is of a picture of the first page of the court’s register of ""Liberated Africans"" taken from the ""Sierra del Pilar"". The register was kept as a formal record of emancipation that helped protect the individual from subsequent re-enslavement. The image is reproduced courtesy of the British National Archives.
Metadata
Year
1839
Source
British National Archives, Foreign Office, ser. 313, vol. 62, p. 19.
Language
Spanish
Related Voyages
Voyage ID = 1856 - Serra do Pilar, 1839