who had been responsible for their deportation as slaves, and building successful careers as merchants. Le Glaunec teases out the activities of fugitive slaves through an examination of advertisements placed by their owners in newspapers. Mitchell examines the narratives of those who survived enslavement in the United States of America, and how their written and recorded testimonies were fundamental to the assertion of identity and the establishment of claims to dignified survival. Osifekunde's story is particularly poignant, as revealed by Ojo. Taken from Rio de Janeiro to France by a French master, Osifekunde became the subject of anthropological enquiry. Laws against the immigration of Africans and people of African descent in France, and Osifekunde's desire to be reunited with his son in Recife, resulted in his return to Brazil where he was exposed to the brutality of lynch mobs, dying an untimely death in 1842. Mohammed Bashir Salau discusses the extraordinary life of Nicholas Said of Borno, enslaved globetrotter and American Civil War veteran who published his autobiography in 1873 in the United States of America. Oliveira exposes the complicity of elite women in Luanda in exploiting and sustaining slavery in the Portuguese colony of Angola. Her account offers a sharp contrast to Unigwe's sensitive portrayal of the life and times of abolitionist Gustavus Vassa, who was born into a free household in Igboland as Olaudah Equiano, and who successfully purchased his own freedom after serving in Britain's Royal Navy during the Seven Years' War, which afforded him the opportunity of an education shipboard. Suzanne Schwarz relies on the 1809 court case documents in Sierra Leone to present the winning fight of Fuseng-be, an enslaved young woman who regained her freedom. Velázquez recounts the startling success of Juan Correa as a Baroque painter in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century New Spain (Mexico). Véras tells us about Baquaqua, his background, his period of enslavement in Brazil