Individualising the Atlantic Slave Trade
The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua of Djougou (1854)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11004552 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robin Law (0000-0001-7199-3757, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Pages | 113-140 |
| Publication date | 2002-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s008044010200004x |
| OpenAlex | W2764416762 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Recent quantitative studies of the Atlantic slave trade tend to marginalise the voices of the enslaved and transported Africans who were its victims, but some sense of their experience is provided by surviving narratives by African-born ex-slaves. This essay draws attention to a neglected example of such narratives, the biography (published in the USA, 1854) of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua, from Djougou (in modern Bénin), who was enslaved and exported to Brazil in 1845. It explores some of the problems of interpretation raised by this text, especially the relationship between Baquaqua's Muslim upbringing and his conversion to Christianity in the Diaspora
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biography · Christianity · Diaspora · Interpretation (philosophy · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2021 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |