Segunda Gallega (1825)

Voyage Overview

The Spanish Schooner, Segunda Gallega, left Havana on 5 May 1825 and purchased 292 enslaved people at Lagos by 29 September 1825. The captain, Agustin Capera, sailed the vessel toward Cuba when Captain Charles Bullen of the HMS Maidstone captured the vessel somewhere off the coast of West Africa. Although the ship’s undocumented owner was never formerly charged, the British and Spanish Court of Mixed Commission, Sierra Leone condemned this vessel and registered 274 Liberated Africans by 25 November 1825. For more information, see Map of 1825.

Archival Resources

1825-11-23 Segunda Gallega V2345 FO315-31 f227-235

1825-11-23 Segunda Gallega V2345 SLR20012-20285

Creator Title

Meyer-Heiselberg, Richard, Notes from Liberated African Department: Extracts from Sources on the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 1808-1860 from the Archives at Fourah Bay College, The University College of Sierra Leone, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Uppsala: The Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1967).

Description

In 1966, Meyer-Heiselberg compiled a preliminary inventory of the registers’ contents, including systematic notes on the age and gender distribution of Liberated Africans. He projected that the overall total was 94,329 individuals. Of that total, just over 30,000 departed from ports in the Bight of Benin, whereby over 20,000 likely had Yoruba names documented therein. Scholars continue to work on the story of Liberated Africans, which amounts to over 225,000 worldwide and made accessible via www.LiberatedAfricans.org.

As Referenced in Voyages

Parliamentary Papers, PP, Accounts and Papers, vol. 10, (1830), 124.

Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers: Slave Trade, IUPST, 11/A1 (Shannon, 1969-74), 28-29.

Meyer-Heiselberg, R., Notes from the Liberated African Department in the Archives at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone (Uppsala, 1967), 20.

Archivo Histórico Nacional (Madrid, Spain), AHNM, Estado, leg. 8015/45.