The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America by Robin Law, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America

Robin Law, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

278 pages • first pub 2001 (view editions)

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This remains one of the few biographies of a slave born in Africa who left a detailed account of his life and struggle for freedom in America.Baquaqua was enslaved in northern Benin in the early 1840s, taken south through Togo to Ouidah, the port ...

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