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A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

by James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw · 1772

Memoir · Classics

Born in Bornu, in what is now northern Nigeria, Gronniosaw was taken from his home as a boy, sold into slavery, and later found his way to England. His 1772 account is one of the earliest published in English by a person of African birth.

Content note: This 1772 narrative describes the slave trade and uses the religious language and spelling of its time.

6 chapters

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I will bring the Blind by a Way that they know not, I will lead them in Paths that they have not known: I will make Darkness Light before them and crooked Things straight. These Things will I do unto them and not forsake them. Isa. xlii. 16.

BATH:

Printed by W. GYE in Westgate-Street; and sold by T. MILLS,

Bookseller, in King's-Mead-Square.

Price Six-Pence.

1772

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