Ibrahima

  • Birth of Ibrahima

    Ibrahima was born in Fouta Djallon, Africa
  • Ibrahima left Futa to study at Timbuktu

  • Ibrahima met John Coates Cox (Dr.Cox)

  • Captured and sold to slave traders at the age of 26

  • Became the overseer of Thomas Foster's tobacco farm in Mississippi

  • Married his wife, another slave of the Foster's

  • Dr. John Cox, Irish surgeon, continued until his death in 1816, to seek Ibrahima's freedom

  • Wrote a letter to relatives in Africa seeking Freedom from Slavery

  • Freed from Slavery

  • 7th Feb, 1829 Returning to Liberia

  • 1st Jul, 1829 Ibrahima died in Liberia