ISBN:
9781469682440
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9781469682457
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 287 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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24 cm
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
Baquaqua, Mohammah Gardo
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Sklavenhandel
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Sklaverei
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Baquaqua, Mahommah Gardo
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Enslaved persons / America / Biography
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Enslaved persons / Africa, West / Biography
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Enslaved Muslims / Biography
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Free Black people / Biography
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Free Black people / Biography
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Black people / Atlantic Ocean Region / History / 19th century
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Slavery / Atlantic Ocean Region / History / 19th century
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Personnes noires affranchies / Biographies
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Personnes noires affranchies / Biographies
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Personnes noires / Atlantique, Région de l' / Histoire / 19e siècle
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HISTORY / World
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
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Biographies
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Biographies
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Baquaqua, Mohammah Gardo 1824-
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Sklaverei
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Sklavenhandel
Abstract:
"A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in the interior of West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. He escaped from slavery when his master took him to New York City in 1847. Baquaqua then fled to Haiti where he converted to Christianity. When he eventually returned to the United States, he enrolled in New York Central College. Baquaqua published his autobiography in 1854 and traveled to Liverpool, England, with the intention of returning to Africa. He apparently achieved this goal by the early 1860s, when his paper trail disappears. Lovejoy and Bezerra's analysis of this remarkable autobiography - the only known narrative by a former Brazilian slave - illuminates what Baquaqua's home in Africa was like, examines African slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Brazil, and offers an Atlantic perspective on resistance to slavery in the Americas in the era of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Born after twins in Djougou -- Twice enslaved? -- Under slavery in Brazil -- New York and freedom -- With the Free Will Baptists -- Baquaqua's narrative of freedom -- Return to Africa -- Application for writ of habeas corpus -- Annual reports of the American Baptist Free Mission Society, Haitian mission 1849-1850
