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Pacifico Licutan
Pacífico Licutan was a Muslim slave and Islamic community and religious leader in colonial Brazil in the 1800s, and was involved in the 1835 Malê Revolt in a leadership capacity. He was not killed in the revolt but did die shortly afterwards, after 11 February 1835. He was also known as "Bilal", a connection to the Islamic figure Bilal ibn Rabah and a regional word for prayer caller, following and in his trial related to the 1835 Malê revolt. His birth-date is unknown. Life Litucan was a Yoruba—also referred to as the ethnic group Nagô, as opposed to the Hausa ethnicity—, the largest group of Muslims in Salvador or Bahia at the time. Litucan was a tobacco roller living in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. He was owned by a doctor, Antonio Pinto de mesquite Varalle. Litucan was active in the Islamic community and was considered a ''mestre'', or teacher in Portuguese, or ''alufa'' to the Yoruba, in his community. Attempts to buy Litucan and free him by his Islamic fellows and fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770 Bonne Map Of West Africa (Guinea, The Bight Of Benin, Congo) - Geographicus - WestAfrica-bonne-1770
Year 177 (Roman numerals, CLXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Commodus and Plautius (or, less frequently, year 930 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 177 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Commodus, Lucius Aurelius Commodus Caesar (age 15) and Marcus Peducaeus Plautius Quintillus become Roman Consuls. * Commodus is given the title ''Augustus (honorific), Augustus'', and is made co-emperor, with the same status as his father, Marcus Aurelius. * A systematic persecution of Christianity, Christians begins in Rome; the followers take refuge in the catacombs of Rome, catacombs. * The churches in southern Gaul are destroyed after a crowd accuses the local Christians of practicing cannibalism. * For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
