Timeline
Lifetime:
1812 -
1897
Passed: ≈
127 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Samuel Downing Moore
Books by Samuel Downing Moore
Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua
History
Memoir
Non-Fiction
Biography
Slavery
New York
History
Autobiography
Education
Islam
Africa
Brazil
Abolitionism
Canada
Slave trade
The autobiography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, a former slave from West Africa. Baquaqua was sold into slavery in 1845 and worked in Brazil as a captive for two years. In 1847, he escaped from the slave ship in New York and eventually made his way to...