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