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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 06:33, 15 March 2022 (UTC)
... that Jonas Mohammed Bath was only able to obtain his freedom from slavery by purchasing another enslaved person to replace himself? Source: "To induce the government to free him, Bath had to buy a slave for 500 dollars. This slave was then handed over to the government as a substitute for Bath." - Campbell, Carl (1975). "John Mohammed Bath and the Free Mandingos in Trinidad: The Question of Their Repatriation to Africa 1831-38". Journal of African Studies. 2: 467–495.
ALT1: ... that by the 1834 abolition of slavery in the British Empire, the Mandingo community in Trinidad led by Jonas Mohammed Bath had purchased the freedom of nearly all of their enslaved countrymen? Source: "With entirely justifiable pride, Bath could boast that when the British emancipation decree came into force on 1 August 1834, “few, if any” of his community were still enslaved. Somewhere between fifty and seventy persons were freed by the society before 1834, a remarkable achievement, especially since slave prices were very high in newly developing and still sparsely populated Trinidad." - Brereton, Bridget (2016). "Bath, Jonas Mohammed". In Knight, Franklin W.; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. (eds.). Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press
AryKun (talk) 05:36, 7 March 2022 (UTC)