Talk:Ali Eisami

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Did you know... that Ali Eisami (pictured), a Kanuri man, dictated his memoirs of his captivity to German missionary and linguist Sigismund Koelle, and helped him produce a Kanuri grammar?

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Category:People who wrote slave narratives[edit]

There's a problem with Category:People who wrote slave narratives because it is a subcategory of Category:African-American writers and Category:African-American memoirists, but he never lived in America.Zigzig20s (talk) 14:30, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I added Category:African writers--does that help? Drmies (talk) 16:08, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Yes.Zigzig20s (talk) 16:27, 13 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Slave narratives are also related as a genre to captivity narratives, the first of which we're familiar with as English speakers were written by English or Americans taken by Barbary pirates and others along the Atlantic and Mediterranean areas. Many were held for ransoms; others were sold into slavery in North Africa and the Middle East; others who were held at length as captives assimilated to the new societies and never returned to England. The English and colonists were familiar with such captivity narratives before the first North Americans published their own, relating experiences of being taken captive by Native Americans or First Nations.Parkwells (talk) 16:20, 20 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

... his enslavement as a result of the transatlantic slave trade ...[edit]

Directly blaming Ali Eisamis enslavement on the transatlantic slave trade, as the article does, seems a bit odd, considering that he was enslaved by Africans during the Fulani War (1804-1808), traded by them to other Africans, apparently having multiple African owners, and not sold to the coast for shipment to the Americas until 1817, i.e. after having been held as a slave by other Africans for ten years or more. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to downplay the Atlantic slave trade, but we can't blame everything on "the white man", "local" slavery, where Africans enslaved and owned other Africans, has existed since long before the Atlantic slave trade began, and according to a number of sources still exists today in Mauritania, and the Arab slave trade began more than 600 years before the Atlantic slave trade started, and involved larger numbers. - Tom | Thomas.W ^talk 19:02, 5 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]