Diallo, Ayuba Suleiman, 1701-1773

found: Some memoirs of the life of Job, the son of Solomon the high priest of Boonda in Africa : who was enslaved for about two years in Maryland; and afterwards being brought to England, was set free, and sent to his native land in the year 1734, 1734:p. 12-13 (Job's name, in his own country, is Hyuba, Boon Salumena, Boon Hibrahema; surname of his family is Jallo; now about 31 or 32 years of age; born at a town called Boonda in the county of Galumbo (in our maps Catumbo), in the kingdom of Futa in Africa); LCCN 26023343 (heading: Job, a slave)

found: National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) WWW site, viewed Apr. 20, 2015(Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job ben Solomon) (1701-1773); educated man from a family of Muslim clerics in West Africa; in 1731 he was taken into slavery and sent to work on a plantation in America; by his own enterprise, and assisted by a series of spectacular strokes of fortune, Diallo arrived in London in 1733; recognised as a deeply pious and educated man, in England Diallo mixed with high and intellectual society, was introduced at Court and was bought out of slavery by public subscription)