 Selim Aga

Selim Aga (born around 1826 in Taqali area of Sudan, died December 1875 in Liberia), a native of Sudan who was abducted by slave traders when he was eight years of age, was brought to Scotland in 1836, and raised and educated as a free man.Selim wrote an autobiography of his life as a slave, accompanied by his poetic "Ode to Britain" and printed in Aberdeen in 1846.