This rare nineteenth-century publication preserves the testimony of Mohammedu-Siseï, a Mandingo Muslim from the Gambia River region of West Africa who was later apprenticed into the 3rd West India Regiment. The article remains an important source for the study of Islam, literacy, military service, and African experiences during the era of emancipation and imperial expansion.
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Reconstructing the Free Mandingo Society: West African Muslims in Trinidad, 1810–1855
A new study examining the lives of Felix Ditt (Mahammedu Sisei), Jonas Bath, Mohammed Houssa (Philip Finlay), Mahammadou Maguina, Mahomet Littledale, and other members of Trinidad's Free Mandingo community through slave registers, military records, Arabic manuscripts, petitions, newspapers, and colonial archives.
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