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Languages : en
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Selim Aga begins by describing the climate, geography, customs, and people of Tegla, his native country in Africa. He then recounts how slave traders kidnapped him when he was approximately eight years old, and then was taken through Sudan and across the desert to Egypt. While he was a slave in Africa, he was sold several times, and finally was sold to a British Consul in Egypt. When this gentleman left Egypt, he took Aga with him to England, where the family treated him with kindness and taught him to read and write, for which Aga expresses much gratitude and even dedicates this narrative to Mrs. Thurburn, the woman who had overseen his education for the previous ten years and served as a maternal figure for him. To continue his praise of the adopted country that afforded him these opportunities, Aga offers an "Ode to Britain," and several other poems that conclude the work.
Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga
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Category : Blacks
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Selim Aga begins by describing the climate, geography, customs, and people of Tegla, his native country in Africa. He then recounts how slave traders kidnapped him when he was approximately eight years old, and then was taken through Sudan and across the desert to Egypt. While he was a slave in Africa, he was sold several times, and finally was sold to a British Consul in Egypt. When this gentleman left Egypt, he took Aga with him to England, where the family treated him with kindness and taught him to read and write, for which Aga expresses much gratitude and even dedicates this narrative to Mrs. Thurburn, the woman who had overseen his education for the previous ten years and served as a maternal figure for him. To continue his praise of the adopted country that afforded him these opportunities, Aga offers an "Ode to Britain," and several other poems that conclude the work.
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Category : Blacks
Languages : en
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Selim Aga begins by describing the climate, geography, customs, and people of Tegla, his native country in Africa. He then recounts how slave traders kidnapped him when he was approximately eight years old, and then was taken through Sudan and across the desert to Egypt. While he was a slave in Africa, he was sold several times, and finally was sold to a British Consul in Egypt. When this gentleman left Egypt, he took Aga with him to England, where the family treated him with kindness and taught him to read and write, for which Aga expresses much gratitude and even dedicates this narrative to Mrs. Thurburn, the woman who had overseen his education for the previous ten years and served as a maternal figure for him. To continue his praise of the adopted country that afforded him these opportunities, Aga offers an "Ode to Britain," and several other poems that conclude the work.
Incidents Connected with the Life of Selim Aga, a Native of Central Africa
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Pages : 40
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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The British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Pages : 432
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Transatlantic Africa
Author: Kwasi Konadu
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN: 1937306496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories, archival documents, and visual evidence, the book connects those experiences to local and international slaving systems. It also tackles the themes of commodification, capitalism, abolitionism, and reparations. By integrating these views with critical interpretations, Transatlantic Africa balances intellectual rigor with broad accessibility, helping readers to think anew about how transoceanic slaving made the modern world
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN: 1937306496
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Transatlantic Africa examines the internal workings of African and diasporic slave societies in the transatlantic era. Emphasizing a global context and the multiplicity of African experiences during that period, historian Kwasi Konadu interprets transatlantic slaving and its consequences through African and diasporic primary sources. Based on careful reading of Africans' oral histories, archival documents, and visual evidence, the book connects those experiences to local and international slaving systems. It also tackles the themes of commodification, capitalism, abolitionism, and reparations. By integrating these views with critical interpretations, Transatlantic Africa balances intellectual rigor with broad accessibility, helping readers to think anew about how transoceanic slaving made the modern world
Encyclopedia of Exploration, 1850 to 1940
Author: Raymond John Howgego
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
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William Wells Brown
Author: William Wells Brown
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers. Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336343
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Born into slavery in Kentucky, William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was kept functionally illiterate until after his escape at the age of nineteen. Remarkably, he became the most widely published and versatile African American writer of the nineteenth century as well as an important leader in the abolitionist and temperance movements. Brown wrote extensively as a journalist but was also a pioneer in other literary genres. His many groundbreaking works include Clotel, the first African American novel; The Escape: or, A Leap for Freedom, the first published African American play; Three Years in Europe, the first African American European travelogue; and The Negro in the American Rebellion, the first history of African American military service in the Civil War. Brown also wrote one of the most important fugitive slave narratives and a striking array of subsequent self-narratives so inventively shifting in content, form, and textual presentation as to place him second only to Frederick Douglass among nineteenth-century African American autobiographers. Ezra Greenspan has selected the best of Brown's work in a range of fields including fiction, drama, history, politics, autobiography, and travel. The volume opens with an introductory essay that places Brown and his work in a cultural and political context. Each chapter begins with a detailed introductory headnote, and the contents are closely annotated; there is also a selected bibliography. This reader offers an introduction to the work of a major African American writer who was engaged in many of the important debates of his time.
Race and Slavery in the Middle East
Author: Terence Walz
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617973793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on western language sources. In the past forty years new sources have become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in western archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region. Contributors: Kenneth M. Cuno, Y. Hakan Erdem, Michael Ferguson, Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Liat Kozma, George Michael La Rue, Ahmad A. Sikainga, Eve M. Troutt Powell, and Terence Walz.
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
ISBN: 1617973793
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
In the nineteenth century hundreds of thousands of Africans were forcibly migrated northward to Egypt and other eastern Mediterranean destinations, yet relatively little is known about them. Studies have focused mainly on the mamluk and harem slaves of elite households, who were mostly white, and on abolitionist efforts to end the slave trade, and most have relied heavily on western language sources. In the past forty years new sources have become available, ranging from Egyptian religious and civil court and police records to rediscovered archives and accounts in western archives and libraries. Along with new developments in the study of African slavery these sources provide a perspective on the lives of non-elite trans-Saharan Africans in nineteenth century Egypt and beyond. The nine essays in this volume examine the lives of slaves and freed men and women in Egypt and the region. Contributors: Kenneth M. Cuno, Y. Hakan Erdem, Michael Ferguson, Emad Ahmad Helal Shams al-Din, Liat Kozma, George Michael La Rue, Ahmad A. Sikainga, Eve M. Troutt Powell, and Terence Walz.