Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua an enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic / Paul E. Lovejoy and Nielson R. Bezerra.
| Author/creator | Lovejoy, Paul E. |
| Other author | Bezerra, Nielson Rosa |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2025] |
| Description | xii, 287 pages illustrations, maps 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
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| Physical medium | illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-278) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024045133 |
| ISBN | 9781469682440 cloth |
| ISBN | 9781469682457 paperback |
| ISBN | epub |
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