Biography Of Mahommah G Baquaqua

Author : Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2012-09-19
Category : Chatham (Ont.)
ISBN : 1479296767

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Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua Pdf

Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, a Native of Zoogoo, in the Interior of Africa.(A Convert to Christianity, ) With a Description of That Part of the World; Including the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants, Their Religious Notions, Form of Government, Laws, Appearance of the Country, Buildings, Agriculture, Manufactures, Shepherds and Herdsmen, Domestic Animals, Marriage Ceremonials, Funeral Services, Styles of Dress, Trade and Commerce, Modes of Warfare, System of Slavery, &c., &c. Mahommah's Early Life, His Education, His Capture and Slavery in Western Africa and Brazil, His Escape to the United States, from Thence to Hayti, (the City of Port Au Prince, ) His Reception by the Baptist Missionary There, The Rev. W. L. Judd; His Conversion to Christianity, Baptism, and Return to This Country, His Views, Objects and Aim. Written and Revised from His Own Words, by Samuel Moore, Esq., Late Publisher of the "North of England Shipping Gazette," Author of Several Popular Works, and Editor of Sundry Reform Papers

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Africa, Central
ISBN : WISC:89094748472

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Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 160942526X

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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Samuel Moore Pdf

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua's biography was published in 1854. His report is the only known document about slave trade written by a Brazilian former slave. Mahommah was captured in Africa, sold as a slave in Brazil in the 1840s and then escaped in New York, where he studied and lived for a few years. He later moved to Canada, when his biography was published, written by Samuel Moore. The book contains interesting information about life and customs in Africa and the hard life of a slave in Brazil in the 19th century.

Author : Robin Law,Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener Publishers
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015054128544

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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Robin Law,Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

This work is a biography of an American slave who was born in Africa. His adventures brought him to Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston, Canada, and Britain; Baquaqua knew Arabic, Dendi, and probably Hausa, Portuguese, English and French.

Author : Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
Publisher : Markus Wiener Pub
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1558764291

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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua Pdf

Baquaqua, born in the town of Djougou (in northern Benin) in the 1820s and raised as a Muslim, lived a busy life as an ironsmith and palace servant. Then he was kidnapped and transported to Recife in about 1845. In 1847 he arrived in New York and there was able to gain his freedom. He then went to Haiti for two years, returned to New York, and in 1850 began studies at Central College. ?This exemplary volume is worthy of study and emulation. . . . Extensive detail and clear overview of the present edition contrast powerfully with the previous versions.??International Journal of African Historical Studies?Law and Lovejoy conclude that perhaps scholars have underestimated the degree to which African-born slaves in the Americas had a choice among alternative ethnic identities.??Hispanic American Historical ReviewPaul E. Lovejoy, York University, is the author of Transformations in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa.

Author : Allan D. Austin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136044540

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African Muslims in Antebellum America by Allan D. Austin Pdf

A condensation and updating of his African Muslims in Antebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, documents, maps, and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the slave trade between 1730 and 1860. Also includes five maps.

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199723980

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Dreams of Africa in Alabama by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet. This book reconstructs the lives of the people in West Africa, recounts their capture and passage in the slave pen in Ouidah, and describes their experience of slavery alongside American-born enslaved men and women. After emancipation, the group reunited from various plantations, bought land, and founded their own settlement, known as African Town. They ruled it according to customary African laws, spoke their own regional language and, when giving interviews, insisted that writers use their African names so that their families would know that they were still alive. The last survivor of the Clotilda died in 1935, but African Town is still home to a community of Clotilda descendants. The publication of Dreams of Africa in Alabama marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association (2007)

Author : William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119063575

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A Companion to African History by William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe Pdf

Covers the history of the entire African continent, from prehistory to the present day A Companion to African History embraces the diverse regions, subject matter, and disciplines of the African continent, while also providing chronological and geographical coverage of basic historical developments. Two dozen essays by leading international scholars explore the challenges facing this relatively new field of historical enquiry and present the dynamic ways in which historians and scholars from other fields such as archaeology, anthropology, political science, and economics are forging new directions in thinking and research. Comprised of six parts, the book begins with thematic approaches to African history—exploring the environment, gender and family, medical practices, and more. Section two covers Africa’s early history and its pre-colonial past—early human adaptation, the emergence of kingdoms, royal power, and warring states. The third section looks at the era of the slave trade and European expansion. Part four examines the process of conquest—the discovery of diamonds and gold, military and social response, and more. Colonialism is discussed in the sixth section, with chapters on the economy transformed due to the development of agriculture and mining industries. The last section studies the continent from post World War II all the way up to modern times. Aims at capturing the enthusiasms of practicing historians, and encouraging similar passion in a new generation of scholars Emphasizes linkages within Africa as well as between the continent and other parts of the world All chapters include significant historiographical content and suggestions for further reading Written by a global team of writers with unique backgrounds and views Features case studies with illustrative examples In a field traditionally marked by narrow specialisms, A Companion to African History is an ideal book for advanced students, researchers, historians, and scholars looking for a broad yet unique overview of African history as a whole.

Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807876860

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Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall Pdf

Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.

Author : David Hackett Fischer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982145118

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African Founders by David Hackett Fischer Pdf

In this sweeping, foundational work, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States. African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa interacted with colonists of European origins to create new regional cultures in the colonial United States. The Africans brought with them linguistic skills, novel techniques of animal husbandry and farming, and generations-old ethical principles, among other attributes. This startling history reveals how much our country was shaped by these African influences in its early years, producing a new, distinctly American culture. Drawing on decades of research, some of it in western Africa, Fischer recreates the diverse regional life that shaped the early American republic. He shows that there were varieties of slavery in America and varieties of new American culture, from Puritan New England to Dutch New York, Quaker Pennsylvania, cavalier Virginia, coastal Carolina, and Louisiana and Texas. This landmark work of history will transform our understanding of America’s origins.

Author : Juan Francisco Manzano
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814325386

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Autobiografía de Un Esclavo by Juan Francisco Manzano Pdf

The proceedings of ISCV'95, the successor to previous Workshops on Computer Vision, comprise 104 refereed papers on topics in optical flow, matching/stereo, motion, object recognition, low-level vision, CAD-based vision, stereo, deformable models, systems and applications, tracking, segmentation and grouping, active vision, aerial image analysis, and integration/texture. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : João José Reis,Flávio dos Santos Gomes,Marcus J. M. de Carvalho
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190224387

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The Story of Rufino by João José Reis,Flávio dos Santos Gomes,Marcus J. M. de Carvalho Pdf

Winner of the Casa de las América Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino José Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story of Rufino or Abuncare, a Yoruba Muslim from the kingdom of Oyo, in present-day Nigeria. Enslaved as an adolescent by a rival ethnic group, he was captured by Brazilian slave traders and taken to Brazil as a slave sometime in the early 1820s. In 1835, after being enslaved in Salvador and Rio Grande do Sul, Rufino bought his freedom with money he made as a hired-out slave and perhaps from making Islamic amulets. He found work in Rio de Janeiro as a cook on a slave ship bound for Luanda in Angola, despite the trans-Atlantic slave trade having been illegal in Brazil since 1831. Rufino himself became a petty slave trader. He made a few voyages before his ship was captured by the British and taken to Sierra Leone in 1841 for trial by the Anglo-Brazilian Mixed Commission to determine if it was equipped for the slave trade, since there were no slaves on board. During the three months awaiting the court's decision, Rufino lived among Yoruba Muslims, his people, and attended Quranic and Arabic classes. He later returned to Sierra Leone as a witness in a court case and attended classes with Muslim masters for almost two years. Once back in Brazil, he established himself as a diviner -- serving whites and blacks, free and slaves, Brazilians and Africans, Muslim and non-Muslims -- as well as a spiritual leader, an Alufa, in the local Afro-Muslim community. In 1853 Rufino was arrested due to rumors of an imminent African slave revolt. The police used as evidence for his arrest the large number of Arabic manuscripts in his possession, the same kind of material the police had found with Muslim rebels in Bahia thirty years earlier. During his interrogation, Rufino told his life story, which is used to reconstruct the world in which he lived under slavery and in freedom on African shores, aboard slave ships, and in Brazil. An extraordinary Atlantic history carefully pieced together from the archives, The Story of Rufino illuminates the complexities of slavery and freedom in Africa and Brazil and the resilience of ethnic and religious identities.

Author : Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101177105

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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Pdf

A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slavery Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of African descent. Cugoano refutes pro-slavery arguments of the day, including slavery's supposed divine sanction; the belief that Africans gladly sold their own families into slavery; that Africans were especially suited to its rigors; and that West Indian slaves led better lives than European serfs. Exploiting his dual identity as both an African and a British citizen, Cugoano daringly asserted that all those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:426829856

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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Wills
Publisher : Liverpool Studies in Internati
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789620788

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Envoys of Abolition by Mary Wills Pdf

Drawing on substantial collections of previously unpublished papers, this book examines personal experiences of British naval officers employed in suppressing the transatlantic slave trade from West Africa in the nineteenth century. It illuminates cultural encounters, the complexities of British abolitionism, and extraordinary military service at sea and in African territories.