40 Years a Slave: The Extraordinary Tale of an African Prince Stolen from His Kingdom
40 Years a Slave: The Extraordinary Tale of an African Prince Stolen from His Kingdom
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was West African royalty before he was enslaved on a Mississippi plantation.
By ABIGAIL HIGGINS
After a shackled journey across the Atlantic, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was desperate to make the man about to purchase him, Thomas Foster, understand his terrible mistake: he wasn’t supposed to be enslaved, the 26-year-old was the heir to one of Africa’s most influential kingdoms.
Instead of freedom, his protestations earned him the derisive nickname “Prince,” which he’d carry for his next 40 years of enslavement.
Sori had arrived in Natchez, Mississippi after being kidnapped by enemy troops in 1788 in his native Fouta Djallon in what is now Guinea. The powerful royal was sold to slave traders for a few muskets and rum at the height of the global slave trade, when an estimated 80,000 Africans were being captured, chained, and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean every year.
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Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was West African royalty before he was enslaved on a Mississippi plantation.
By ABIGAIL HIGGINS
After a shackled journey across the Atlantic, Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was desperate to make the man about to purchase him, Thomas Foster, understand his terrible mistake: he wasn’t supposed to be enslaved, the 26-year-old was the heir to one of Africa’s most influential kingdoms.
Instead of freedom, his protestations earned him the derisive nickname “Prince,” which he’d carry for his next 40 years of enslavement.
Sori had arrived in Natchez, Mississippi after being kidnapped by enemy troops in 1788 in his native Fouta Djallon in what is now Guinea. The powerful royal was sold to slave traders for a few muskets and rum at the height of the global slave trade, when an estimated 80,000 Africans were being captured, chained, and shipped across the Atlantic Ocean every year.
READ MORE: 40 Years a Slave: The Extraordinary Tale of an African Prince Stolen from His Kingdom https://www.history.com/news/african-princ...
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Posted By: Deacon Ron Gray
Tuesday, April 26th 2022 at 11:06AM
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عبد الرحمن ابن ابراهيم سوري (1762–1829) Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was GREAT
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was Emir of Islaamic Jamiaah from Senegal to Mali
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was heir to land larger than USA 13 colonies
Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori was a Linguist of 5+ languages
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deaCON did you READ and Reseach the actual History of this GREAT African
that was tortured, raped and dehumanized by the deaCON racistlyIgnorant paganChristian
Monster thomasFoster?
..do someday learn something of AfricaAsia and STOP deaCON enablement of racistlyIgnorant
paganChristian COLORED'WHITESUPEMACY' and their Evil opinion hisStory..