On 7th April 1822, when the 13 year old Samuel Ajayi Crowder was rescued from the belly of a slave ship heading for America, he thought all was finished. A year before, around breakfast, together with his mother and two sisters, he was captured by Fulani slave raiders when they attacked his village of Osogun, 140 km inland of Lagos coast.
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