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First Independent Baptist Church (Boston)
This notice published in The Liberator lists Charles A. Battiste (Sr.) as a member of the First Independent Baptist Church in Boston. Many members of this African-American church were activists in the anti-slavery movement and were leaders of…
Cortland County Express
Mohammah Gardo Baquaqua is described as singing a song with fellow students post dinner. Baquaqua however, sung the song in his native tongue, Arabic.
The Sabbath Recorder
Mohammah G. Baquaqua arrives in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and meets with Reverend W.L. Judd who seeks to give him an English education and send him back to his native country for missionary work.
An Interesting Narrative Biography of Mohommah G. Baquaqua.
An image of the original cover of the autobiography. It is also one of the very few images of Mohommah G. Baquaqua himself.
1855 New York State Census
Charles A. Battiste (Jr.) appears here in the 1855 New York State Census as a resident of the Colored Orphan Asylum in New York City. The census lists him as a 10 year "mulatto" boy.
Evening Star (Washington, District of Columbia)
A newspaper advert for Samuel J. Datcher's shoe-making business.
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