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Title: | Mahbuba, the 'Beloved': the life and romance of an Ethiopian slave-girl in early nineteenth-century Europe |
Author: | Pankhurst, Richard |
Year: | 1979 |
Periodical: | Journal of African Studies (UCLA) |
Volume: | 6 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 47-55 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
Subjects: | female slaves biographies (form) |
Abstract: | The story of Bililé, or Ajiamé, a girl from the Guma province of southwest Ethiopia, who was bought at the slave market in Cairo in 1837 by a German nobleman, Prince Hermann von Pückier-Muskau. Greatly fascinated by the girl, to whom he used to refer as Mahbuba ('beloved' in Arabic), the Prince took her with him during his travels in the East. After his travels had drawn to a close the Prince and Mahbuba in 1839 came to Austria. The girl, not accustomed to the European climate, became ill and died in 1840 in Muskau at the age of sixteen. Notes. |