The Biography Of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

Author : Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
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 : Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
Publisher : Markus Wiener Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Chatham (Ont.)
ISBN : 1558764305

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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua Pdf

This is the biography of an American slave who was born in Africa. His adventures took him to Rio de Janeiro, New York, Boston, Canada, and Britain; he knew Arabic, Dendi, probably Hausa, Portuguese, English, and French. In recent times scholars raised the doubt that such biographies of slaves born in Africa were only partially true; so, Law and Lovejoy traveled to Djougou and Brazil and followed the traces of Baquaqua via various collections, documents, oral history and written reports. They photographed the sites described by Baquaqua and included them in the book. They have also added several letters and other documents to the 1854 original edition. Baquaqua was enslaved in northern Benin in the early 1840s when he was about 20. At the time he was a bodyguard for the ruler of a subordinate town. He was abducted, taken south through Togo to Ouidah, a port in Dahomey, shipped to Pernambuco in Brazil, and sold to a merchant from Rio. This merchant then sold him to another Rio merchant, who took him by ship to New York City, where a little-known black group, the New York Vigilance Society, convinced him to jump ship. He escaped to Boston and traveled to Haiti, the only free Black state, where he was picked up by the Free Baptist Mission. Here Baquaqua converted to Christianity. He later returned to the U.S. and attended college, and traveled extensively.

Author : Samuel Moore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,8 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 : 41,7 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 : 51,7 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 : 47,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:426829856

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The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sherwin K. Bryant,Rachel Sarah O'Toole,Ben Vinson
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252036637

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Africans to Spanish America by Sherwin K. Bryant,Rachel Sarah O'Toole,Ben Vinson Pdf

Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. The volume is arranged around three sub-themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Contributors are Joan Cameron Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo Garafalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor, and Michele B. Reid.

Author : Sylviane A. Diouf
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814719046

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Servants of Allah by Sylviane A. Diouf Pdf

Diouf examines the role Islam played in the culture of African slaves in the Americas.

Author : Juan Francisco Manzano
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : William H. Worger,Charles Ambler,Nwando Achebe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Omar Ibn Said
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780299249533

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A Muslim American Slave by Omar Ibn Said Pdf

Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians

Author : Mariana Pinho Candido,Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 1592218202

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Crossing Memories by Mariana Pinho Candido,Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

Examines the history and memory of slavery in Africa and the Americas from the period of the transatlantic slave trade until the present day. Using diverse approaches and a myriad of sources, the contributors investigate how slavery has shaped the past and present lives of African diaspora populations. Interdisciplinary in its approach, Crossing Memories analyses a wide range of relevant cultural output, from music to monuments.

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139502771

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Transformations in Slavery by Paul E. Lovejoy Pdf

This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African history. The book corrects the accepted interpretation that African slavery was mild and resulted in the slaves' assimilation. Instead, slaves were used extensively in production, although the exploitation methods and the relationships to world markets differed from those in the Americas. Nevertheless, slavery in Africa, like slavery in the Americas, developed from its position on the periphery of capitalist Europe. This new edition revises all statistical material on the slave trade demography and incorporates recent research and an updated bibliography.

Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,9 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.