(Auto) registration as Ontological Resistance: Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua and its Narrative for Freedom
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This article is the result of my underway research project in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences (PÓSAfro) at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), which consists of the study of Mohamed Gardo Baquaqua’ autobiography (1854), understanding his trajectory and the strategies of survival and humanization in the African diaspora, considering his narrative, in the process of (self) registration, as an instrument to fight subordination for the emancipation of slavery, constituting itself , therefore, in collective representation of the memories of the captive Africans of the plantation, in a missionary project of freedom. This text is structured as follows: I. (Auto) biography of Baquaqua; II - Invisibility and the silencing of black subjectivities and III - (Self) inscription and ontological resistance.
KEYWORDS: Baquaqua. Dehumanization. (Auto) registration. Ontological resistance.
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