The stolen prince
Gannibal, adopted son of Peter the Great, Great-Grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's first black intellectual
by Hugh Barnes
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Unearthing lost documents and new clues that help to reconstruct the extraordinary life of Gannibal, the first black intellectual in Europe, this thrilling hybrid of a travelogue and detective story combines historical scholarship with a literary imagination to take us from tsarist Saint Petersburg and a half-forgotten Africa all the way to our present day. In the spring of 1703, a young African boy stepped off a slave ship in Constantinople, the gateway between East and West. Huddling in chains, with other frightened captives, the seven-year-old claimed to be a prince of Abyssinia, a "noble Moor" kidnapped and stolen out of Africa. His tragedy was shared by millions of black people caught up in the Islamic slave trade, but his destiny was unique: rescued by Peter the Great, the young African became Abram Petrovich Gannibal. - Jacket flap.
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The stolen prince: Gannibal, adopted son of Peter the Great, Great-Grandfather of Alexander Pushkin, and Europe's first black intellectual
2006, ECCO
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0066212650 9780066212654
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