Baquaqua went to England as a Baptist with a Muslim name in 1855 and in 1857, according to the last letter bearing news about him, he was talking about his determination to return to Africa. He very likely did return. There is some tenuous evidence to suggest that he went to Liberia as a missionary, following the free African-American pastor Chauncey Leonard (Fisher, 1933, p. 73). However, it is worth considering the possibility that with steam ships crisscrossing the route between England and the new British Protectorate of Lagos to keep Liverpool and the industrial revolution supplied with West African palm oil (Moloney, 1890, pp. 596-614), and in the light of the migratory flows of formerly enslaved persons and African merchants heading north from there to Hausa country (Mann, 2007), Baquaqua might well have made it to Lagos and back to his mother.  
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[^0]:    15 See, for example, the letter from Kezia King, McGrawville, to her sisters in Hillsdale, NY, written on 23 October 1854 (Law and Lovejoy, 2007, p. 256).