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Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Lovejoy, Paul E.

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua Religion & Esotericism

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

By Lovejoy, Paul E.

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"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"--
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
302
Release Date:
2025-04-29
Publication Date:
2025-04-29
Publisher:
The University of North Carolina Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1469682451
ISBN13:
9781469682457
Weight:
517 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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