Incidents connected with the life of Selim Aga
Subtitle: a native of Central Africa
Contributors: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: Academic Affairs Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Black people; Biography; Slaves; Slavery; Slave trade; Slaves' writings
Other titles: Life of Selim Aga; Aga's recollections.; North American slave narratives.
Description: Selim Aga begins by describing the climate, geography, customs, and people of Tegla, his native country in Africa. He then recounts how slave traders kidnapped him when he was approximately eight years old, and then was taken through Sudan and across the desert to Egypt. While he was a slave in Africa, he was sold several times, and finally was sold to a British Consul in Egypt. When this gentleman left Egypt, he took Aga with him to England, where the family treated him with kindness and taught him to read and write, for which Aga expresses much gratitude and even dedicates this narrative to Mrs. Thurburn, the woman who had overseen his education for the previous ten years and served as a maternal figure for him. To continue his praise of the adopted country that afforded him these opportunities, Aga offers an "Ode to Britain," and several other poems that conclude the work.
Notes: Title from electronic title page (viewed January 21, 2004)

This electronic edition has been transcribed from a photocopy of the original at Cambridge University supplied by William L. Andrews.

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Transcribed from photocopy of: Incidents connected with the life of Selim Aga : a native of Central Africa. [S.l. : Published for the author], 1846 (Aberdeen : W. Bennett, printer). 44 p ; 14 cm. Includes poems by the author. "June 1846"--P. iii. Running title: Aga's recollections.

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