Selim Aga : A Slave's Odyssey

Name: Selim Aga
Brand: Luath Press Ltd
SKU: 9781905222179
Price: 3050 KES
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ISBN: 9781905222179

by James McCarthy

Book Details

Format Hardback

ISBN-10 1905222173

ISBN-13 9781905222179

Publisher Luath Press Ltd

Imprint Luath Press Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Oct 1st, 2006

Print length 208 Pages

Weight 396 grams

Dimensions 21.80 x 15.70 x 3.20 cms

Product Classification: Africa Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military African history Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 History African history

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Selim Aga was eight years old when he was abducted from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan and sold into slavery and auctioned 2000 miles away in Egypt to the highest bidder. James McCarthy has pieced together the life of this remarkable man using Selim's own narrative and those of others such as Sir Richard Burton.

Selim Aga was eight years old when he was abducted from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan and sold into slavery and auctioned 2000 miles away in Egypt to the highest bidder. Born around 1827 Selim was killed in a war in Liberia in 1875. How then did this slave come to be lecturing to fashionable audiences in London and publishing in the "Geographical Magazine"? James McCarthy has pieced together the life of this remarkable man using Selim''s own narrative and those of others such as Sir Richard Burton.

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