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Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua - by Paul E Lovejoy & Nielson Bezerra
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Highlights
- 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.
- Author(s): Paul E Lovejoy & Nielson Bezerra
- 320 Pages
- History, World
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Book Synopsis
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.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.25 Inches (H) x 6.12 Inches (W)
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: World
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 320
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Format: Hardcover
Author: Paul E Lovejoy & Nielson Bezerra
Language: English
Street Date: April 29, 2025
TCIN: 92968416
UPC: 9781469682440
Item Number (DPCI): 247-44-9363
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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