Elizabeth Frazer Skelton

Elizabeth Frazer Skelton kuma ana kiranta " Mammy Skelton " (1800-1855) yar kasuwan bayi ce ta Yuro-Afirka.Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong, Dictionary of African Biography, Volym 1–6

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Ita ce 'yar mai cinikin bayi John Frazer na Scotland (1769-1813) da kuma macen Afirka Phenda. Tana da ɗan’uwa ɗaya, James, da ’yan’uwa mata uku, Margaret, Mary Ann da Eleanor. 

Mahaifinta ya yi hijira zuwa Laberiya a shekara ta 1797, amma an kore shi saboda ya shiga bauta. Mahaifiyarta Phenda ita ce gwauruwar wani ɗan kasuwan bayi na Biritaniya, kuma ta gudanar da kasuwancin bayi a Bangalan na Afirka, yayin da mahaifin Elizabeth ya kula da jirgin da ke fitar da bayin zuwa Charleston da ke South Carolina da (bayan 1807) zuwa Gabashin Mutanen Espanya Florida, inda kuma ya mallaki gonaki da aikin bayi ke gudanarwa. 

Bayan mutuwar mahaifinta, matar da mijinta ya mutu da 'ya'yansa sun gaji kasuwancin bayi a Afirka - duk da haka, dukiyarsa a Biritaniya da Amurka, irin su gonaki a Florida, danginsa a Biritaniya sun yi iƙirarin,  kuma tsarin shari'a ya ci gaba har zuwa 1851.  Elizabeth da kannenta biyu sun sami ilimi a makarantar ‘yan mata ta Elizabeth Renner, Makarantar Bashia, har zuwa 1816, lokacin da aka tura su Liverpool don kammala karatunsu kafin su dawo Afirka. 

Elizabeth ta auri ɗan Anglo-African William Skelton Jr. na Kissing, wanda ya kafa sanannen gidan ciniki na Skelton. Ita da mijinta sun kafa bawan Victoria a kogin Rio Nunez a 1825/26, wanda suka gudanar tare. Wurin kasuwancinsu na Victoria yana aiki a matsayin mashigar bayi da kwalekwale ko jirgin ruwa ke jigilar su zuwa Bissau na Portuguese. Su ne abokan kasuwanci na 'yar'uwar Elizabeth kuma surukinta, Mary Ann Frazer da kuma Ba'amurke mai ciniki Thomas Gaffery Curtis na Fallangia.

A cikin 1843, ɗan kasuwa ɗan Amurka Enoch R. Ware ya kwatanta ta:

 "[Ta] ya yi kyau sosai kuma ya ƙaru fiye da lokacin da na bar nan a 1841. Ta karɓi bayanin abubuwan da suka samu tare da daraja sosai - fiye da yawancin mata farar fata. Ita ce gadonta daga mahaifinta wanda ya yi aure a Rio Pongas, & wannan daya & 'yar'uwa daya da sauran 'ya'yan da suka rage. Uban fari ne kuma dukiyar ita ce dukiyar wani yanki a Florida. Ba ta taba gaya mani cewa Mrs. tafi can - mai yiwuwa saboda rashin son zuciya ga mutane masu launin fata da kuma ƙarancin halin da suke ciki a cikin al'umma a can ta wuce shekaru hudu a Ingila inda ake karbar masu launin kusan ko kuma a kan daidaito da fararen fata." 

Enoch R. Ware ya kuma bayyana yadda aka bai wa 'ya'yan Skeltons Emma da Mary Ann ilimi iri ɗaya na abubuwan da aka saba yi ga matan Yammacin Turai. 

Lokacin da ta rasu, ita kanta ta gudanar da sana’ar marigayiya. A wancan lokacin turawan Ingila da Amurka ne suka haramta cinikin bayi, amma sun ci gaba da aiki. Ta na da matsayi mai karfi a matsayin mai rinjaye a cikin 'yan kasuwa na yanki, kuma ta kasance mai alhakin rabin rabin fitar da yankin. A cikin kusan 1840, a ƙarƙashin matsin lamba na Squadron na Yammacin Afirka na Birtaniya da kuma Blockade na Afirka, dillalan bayi na yankin sannu a hankali ya koma noman gyada tare da aikin bayi, masana'antar da ta zama ɗaya daga cikin manyan mutane. A shekara ta 1851, Elizabeth, kasancewar ita kaɗai ce ke zaune ga ƴan uwanta, a ƙarshe ta karɓi gadonta bayan mahaifinta, wanda ya kai sama da dala miliyan ɗaya. 

Ta sake auri ɗan kasuwan mai gauraya John Nelson Bicaise na Trinidad, da yarta Mary Ann sun auri a 1846 ga Joseph Richmond Lightburn,  wanda na dangin Niara Bely ne .

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