Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: The only known biography of a former slave from Brazil.
Abolitionist and slave-narrative author, he was born in the commercial center of Djougou, West Africa, inland from the Bight of Benin in what would later be the republic of Benin. He was a younger son of a Muslim merchant from Borgu and his wife, who was from Katsina, the Hausa city in northern Nigeria— then known as … More Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: The only known biography of a former slave from Brazil.