Biography Of Mahommah J. Baquaqua: His Passage From Slavery To Freedom In Africa And America

Synopsis

This is one of the few biographies of a slave born in Africa who has left a detailed account of his life under slavery in the Americas. 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 as well. He was enslaved in northern Benin in the early 1840's when he was about 20. At the time he