Lovejoy and others published identidade e a miragem da. His passage from slavery to freedom in africa and america find, read and cite all the. Mahommah baquaqua describes his homeland in west africa. Sua biografia foi publicada pelo abolicionista estadunidense samuel moore. Mahommah gardo baquaqua 1 foi um homem africano, sequestrado escravizado por traficantes. Table of contents maps and illustrations ix acknowledgments xiii introduction 1 an interesting narrative.
Including the manners and customs of the inhabitants, their religious notions, form of government, laws, appearance of the country. 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. Historiadores traduzem unica autobiografia escrita por ex. Mahommah gardo baquaqua moad museum of african diaspora. Foss and edward mathews, facts for baptist churches uthica, n. 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. Mahommah gardo baquaqua was a former slave, native of zooggoo, west africa, a tributary.
Including the manners and customs of the inhabitants, their religious notions, form of government, laws, appearance of the country, buildings, agriculture, manufactures, shepherds and. Request pdf on jan 1, 2002, patrick manning and others published the biography of mahommah gardo baquaqua. Traduo da edio eletrnica em lngua inglesa baquaqua, mahommah gardo moore, samuel, fl. The biography of mahommah gardo baquaqua english edition.
O texto original foi publicado em detroit em 1854 sob o titulo biography of mahommah g. Muslim trader african slavery african slave trade missionary. Around 1844 he was kidnapped, enslaved and taken to recife, brazil. According to his own biographical account he was a favorite of a local king. Mahommah gardo baquaqua, o unico a ter sido produzido por um africano trazido ao brasil como escravo.
Baquaqua 85 appendix 1affidavits, district court, new york, 1847 195. Foss e edward mathews, facts for baptist churches utica, ny, 1850. Publicou sua narrativa em 1854, nos estados unidos, em liberdade. Mahommah gardo baquaquas biography was published in 1854. Como escravo trabalhou numa embarcacao comercial escapando em 1847. Mahommah gardo baquaqua, like many other africans enslaved in the americas, had a hometown, a family, and in some of his youth suffered from the violence of the war. He wrote a biography, published by american abolitionist samuel moore in 1854. His passage from slavery to freedom in africa and america. Islam first, then african developed at own pace, west had. Mahommah gardo baquaqua s biography was published in 1854. Mahommah gardo baquaqua was a former slave, native of zooggoo, west africa, a tributary kingdom of bergoo kingdom. His report is the only known document about the slave trade written by a former brazilian slave. He was enslaved and exported through the most important slave port in west africa, the port of udai whydah, in. Li laboris en brazilo kiel malliberulo, tamen li eskapis al novjorko en 1847, certigante sian liberecon.
He was enslaved and exported through the most important slave port in west africa, the port of udai whydah, in the kingdom of dahomey. His report is the only known document about slave trade written by a brazilian former slave. Autobiografia do escravo africano mahommah gardo baquaqua. Mahommah gardo baquaqua was born in 1820s djougou in the modernday west african country of benin. A convert to christianity, with a description of that part of the world. His passagem from slavery to freedom in africa and america e editado e comentado pelos. Baquaqua 85 appendix 1affidavits, district court, new york, 1847 195 1. Mahommah gardo baquaqua was born into a muslim family in the late 1820s in the kingdom of bergoo, in presentday benin. He wrote a biography, published by american abolitionist samuel moore in.
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