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A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. During a trip to New York City in 1847, he escaped from his master and 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 —the only known narrative by a former Brazilian slave— in 1854 and traveled to 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 and examines African slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Brazil. It also offers an Atlantic perspective on resistance to slavery in the Americas in the era of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
Editions of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
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- ISBN 9781469682440
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- ISBN 9781469682457
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- ISBN 9781469682464
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469682488
- EBook
- ISBN 9781469682495
- PDF
- ISBN 9781469682471
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A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. During a trip to New York City in 1847, he escaped from his master and 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 —the only known narrative by a former Brazilian slave— in 1854 and traveled to 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 and examines African slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Brazil. It also offers an Atlantic perspective on resistance to slavery in the Americas in the era of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. During a trip to New York City in 1847, he escaped from his master and 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 —the only known narrative by a former Brazilian slave— in 1854 and traveled to 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 and examines African slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Brazil. It also offers an Atlantic perspective on resistance to slavery in the Americas in the era of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.
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History and Archaeology > History > General and world history
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Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua has 302 page(s)
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Nielson Bezerra, Paul E. Lovejoy
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Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781469682440) and paperback(ISBN 9781469682457) and ebook(ISBN 9781469682464) and ebook(ISBN 9781469682488) and ebook(ISBN 9781469682495) and pdf(ISBN 9781469682471)
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