Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo lived in West Africa in 1730. He was a Muslim. One day, his father sent Ayuba on an errand to take a lot of slaves to a location far away from his home to exchange them for paper and other goods. Paper was important for them because they needed to write passages of the Quran on them to sell. Unfortunately, things didn't go  as planned. The captain of the ship didn't want to trade the slaves for paper, so Ayuba took the slaves farther south and sold them for cattle. On the way home, Ayuba was captured and was sold as a slave to the captain that had rejected his offer from before. He was sold to a planter in the United States and worked in the tobacco fields. When he was too weak to work there, they let him work with the cattle. A man named Bluett saved Ayuba by taking him to England. Ayuba eventually made it back home to live with his wives and children. I think that Ayuba is very fortunate to have made it home. You don't really hear a lot of stories where the slave not only makes it home alive, but bearing gifts from their owners, or friends, or whoever they met on their journey away from home. I thought Ayuba's story would be a tragedy, which at the beginning it was, but it turned out to be a miracle. Ayuba was very fortunate that Bluett found him and saved him from a life of horror. I have never heard of Ayuba before and I hope to learn more about his story in the future.

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