The Author

Thomas Bluett, attorney, judge, minister, was born in Maryland about 1690. His first historical mention was in 1722 as being a minister and a member of Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, a missionary organization of Colonial times. In 1731 he gained a degree of lasting renown through an encounter he had with a slave, Ayuba Suleiman Diallo. The slave had been brought from Gambia in Africa to Maryland and given the name Job. Finding difficulty in performing the physical labor assigned to him by his master, the slave ran away, was captured, and put in jail. While in jail he was visited by Thomas Bluett. Thomas became impressed with Job and, through another slave acting as interpreter, wrote Job's biography «Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland; and Afterwards Being Brought to England, was Set Free, and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734». Bluett died in 1749.

The Work

Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland; and Afterwards Being Brought to England, was Set Free, and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734.

Appendix

Thomas Bluett. Some Memoirs of the Life of Job (The University of North Carolina)

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Wikipedia)

The Bluett Family

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