{"product_id":"mahommah-gardo-baquaqua-paul-e-lovejoy-9781469682457","title":"Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic","description":"A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in the interior of West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. He escaped from slavery when his master took him to New York City in 1847. Baquaqua then fled to Haiti where he converted to Christianity. When he eventually returned to the United States, he enrolled in New York Central College. Baquaqua published his autobiography in 1854 and traveled to Liverpool, England, with the intention of returning to Africa. He apparently achieved this goal by the early 1860s, when his paper trail disappears. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLovejoy and Bezerra's analysis of this remarkable autobiography--the only known narrative by a former Brazilian slave--illuminates what Baquaqua's home in Africa was like, examines African slavery in mid-nineteenth-century Brazil, and offers an Atlantic perspective on resistance to slavery in the Americas in the era of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul E. Lovejoy, Nielson Bezerra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469682451\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469682457\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Paul E. Lovejoy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45332058374399,"sku":"9781469682457","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8baea18d-588b-4675-8b88-8173afb2f56d.jpg?v=1713971630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mahommah-gardo-baquaqua-paul-e-lovejoy-9781469682457","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}