Sessarakoo, William Ansah

found: Wikipedia, viewed Sept. 15, 2011:(William Ansah (or Unsah) Sessarakoo; son of a wealthy brafo (chief) of the Fante people, based close to a fort established as a trading post by the Dutch at Annamaboe on the West African Gold Coast; his father, known as "John Corrente", was a trader in gold and slaves, who decided to send his son to Europe to learn European ways of business; the European captain engaged to transport Sessarakoo took him to Bridgetown in Barbados, where he sold him into slavery; his father refused to deal with English traders until his son was released, so to avoid diplomatic problems, the Royal African Company arranged for local merchants to pay for Sessarakoo to be freed; Sessarakoo was taken to London, where he came under the protection of the George Montagu-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, President of the Board of Trade; he was treated as a foreign prince, the "Prince of Annamaboe"; his memoirs were published as "The Royal African: or, Memoirs of the Young Prince of Annamaboe") - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ansah_Sessarakoo