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Eyob Derillo
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African Scribes: Manuscript Culture of Ethiopia/ #Ethiopia #manuscript #globalmiddleages All my view.
Jan 9, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
CORRECTION: Al Pouessi (1765-1870) was an #Ethiopian woman enslaved at the age of 14, sold to Pierre & François Testas, slave-traders from Bordeaux & owners of a sugar plantation in #Haiti One of her descendants was former president of Haiti, François Denys Légitime (1841 1935) ImageImage "She travelled to Bordeaux, where she was baptized by the Testas brothers in 1781, giving her the name Marthe Adelaïde Modeste Testas. The same year, she was transported with François Testas to their plantation in Haiti...