Muhammad g baquaqua biography of michael

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua^[1] was a former slave, native of Zooggoo, West Africa, a tributary kingdom of Bergoo kingdom.

Lovejoy, The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America (Princeton, Markus Wiener Publisher.

Lovejoy, The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Africa and America (Princeton, Markus Wiener Publisher.

Lovejoy, The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His. Passage from Slavery Samuel Moore, Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua: a Native of Zoogoo, in.

Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was born around in Djougou, Benin, to a prominent Muslim family.

This paper describes a handful of autobiographical accounts by Africans who survived the physical and psychic hardships of the transatlantic.

His life story, Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua, was compiled by Samuel Moore and published in In he went to England and attempted to raise money.

He worked in Brazil as a captive; however, he escaped and fled to New York in 1847, assuring his freedom. He was literate in Arabic at the time of his capture, and recited a prayer in Arabic before an audience at New York Central College, where he studied from 1849 to 1853.^[2] He wrote an autobiography (slave narrative), published by American abolitionistSamuel Downing Moore in 1854.

His report is the only known document about the slave trade written by a former Brazilian slave.^[3]

Early life

Baquaqua was born in Djougou (currently in Benin) between 1820 and 1830 in a prominent Muslim trader family.

He learned the Quran, literature and mathematics in an Islamic school. Still as an adolescent, he and his brother took part in the succession wars in Daboya, where he was captured and then rescued.

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