Fenda Lawrence

Fenda Lawrence (1742  - bayan shekarar 1780), 'yar kasuwan bayi ce 'yar Afirka wacce ke aiki a garin Saloum na Kaur. A cikin shekarar 1772, ta ziyarci Mallaka goma sha uku (Thirteen Colonies) a matsayin mace baƙar fata kyauta don yawon buɗe da kasuwanci.

 Tarihin Rayuwa 
Fenda Lawrence ta zauna a Gambiya kafin mulkin mallaka kusa da kogin Gambia a tsakiyar ƙarni na 18. Yayin da take can, ta zama mai shiga tsakani ga 'yan kasuwa na Burtaniya da Faransa da kuma 'yan Afirka na gida. Wannan matsayi ne aka ba ta ta hanyar auren Bature. Lawrence ta yi aiki daga garin Saloum na Kaur.  A cikin shekarar 1772, Lawrence ta ziyarci yankuna goma sha uku na Amurka a matsayin mai yawon shakatawa tare da wasu masu sha'awar kasuwanci.  A wannan lokacin, ta riga ta rabu da abokiyarta 'yar Ingilishi. 

Lokacin da ta isa kan jirgin New Britannia, Lawrence ta ɗauki bayi biyar na sirri tare da ita. Ta fara isa Charleston, South Carolina, bayan kwanaki 36 na tafiya. Daga nan Lawrence ta kasance tare da Kyaftin na jirgin, Stephen Deane, zuwa Jojiya.  An fitar da ita wata takarda daga jihar inda ta bayyana cewa ita 'yar bakar fata ce mai 'yanci kuma a baya 'yar kasuwa ce a kogin Gambia da ke gabar tekun Afirka, bisa raɗin kanta ta zo ta zauna na wani lokaci a wannan lardin. Lawrence zata kasance ɗan asalin ɗan ƙasar Wolof, amma don kasuwanci a Jojiya, da ya yi magana Creole. 

Deane ta nemi izini a madadin Lawrence don ta zauna na dindindin a Jojiya.  Deane ya bayyana cewa ya san Lawrence tsawon shekaru bakwai ko takwas, kuma ya bayyana cewa musamman James Lawrence, ɗanta, ya kamata a bar shi ya zauna.  A cikin labarin Robert Davis for The Georgia Historical Quarterly, ta ba da shawarar cewa Fenda Lawrence ita ce mahaifiyar akalla ɗaya idan ba fiye da 'ya'yan Deane ba.  Ya bayyana cewa ɗan Deane David Laurence shi ma ɗan Lawrence ne. 

 Duba kuma 

 Alamomi, 'yan kasuwan bayi mata a Afirka ta yamma ta mulkin mallaka

 Bayanan kula 
Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku; Gates, Jr., Henry Louis (2012). Dictionary of African Biography. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-195382-075.Davis, Robert Scott (Spring 2013). "Free But Not Freed: Stephen Deane's African Family in Early Georgia". The Georgia Historical Quarterly. 97 (1): 61–72. JSTOR 24636305.Holloway, Joseph E., ed. (2005). Africanisms in American Culture. Bloomington, IND: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253217-493.
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