Éditeur(s) : Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( [Chapel Hill, N.C.] )
Résumé : (Statement of Responsibility) written and revised from his own words by Samuel Moore.
(Original Version) Transcribed from the photocopy of: Detroit : Printed for the author, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, by Geo. E. Pomeroy & Co., Tribune office, 1854. 66 p. ; 22 cm. Biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua : a native of Zoogoo, in the interior of Africa (a convert of Christianity), with a description of that part of the world, including the manners and customs of the inhabitants ... Mahommah's early life, his education, his capture and slavery in Western Africa and Brazil, his escape to the United States, from thence to Hayti, (the city of Port Au Prince,) his reception by the Baptist Missionary there, the Rev. W.L. Judd; his conversion to Christianity, Baptism, and return to this country, his views, objects and aim / written and revised from his own words by Samuel Moore, ESQ., late publisher of the "North of England Shipping Gazette," author of several popular works, and editor of sundry reform papers. Cover title: An interesting narrative : biography of Mahommah G. Baquaqua ...|"Prayer of the oppressed"--P. [66].
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Title from electronic title page.
This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy supplied by the North Carolina State University Library.
Includes information about Central Africa "their religious notions, form of government, laws, appearance of the country, buildings, agriculture, manufactures, shepherds and herdsmen, domestic animals, marriage ceremonials, funeral services, styles of dress, trade and commerce, modes of warfare, system of slavery, &c., &c."
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection North American slave narratives.
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Text encoded by Apex Data Services, Inc., Elizabeth S. Wright and Natalia Smith.
Early Caribbean Digital Archive.
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