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Abolitionists
Asante
Author_Nielson Bezerra
Author_Paul E. Lovejoy
Baptists
Biography
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Central College
Dahomey
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Haiti
Hausa
Middle Passage
Muslim
New York City
Ouidah
Pernambuco
Rio de Janeiro
Rio Grande do Sul
Slavery
Sokoto Caliphate
Underground Railroad
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- ISBN 9781469682440
- Dimensions: 155 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2025
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
Paul E. Lovejoy is Distinguished Research Professor and Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University.
Nielson Bezerra is associate professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and director of Museu Vivo do Sao Bento.
Nielson Bezerra is associate professor at Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and director of Museu Vivo do Sao Bento.
