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Ibrahima's Story
The Prince
Ibrahima and Isabella Freedom Foundation is named in honor of Prince
Ibrahima (Abduhl Rahaman) and Isabella Sori-Mawdho who were two important
forerunners of the freedom movement for people of African descent in
America. Approximately 255 years ago, Abduhl Rahahman was part of a royal
family in West Africa in (what is now Guinea). At the age of 26 he was
captured from home, sold as a slave and survived the transatlantic passage
to America. In America the Prince met and married Isabella, a first
generation American-born slave woman who was one of the first black woman
ever referred to as a doctor. After forty years in bondage (1778- 1828)
Prince Ibrahima and Isabella finally won their freedom and emigrated to what
is now Liberia. He died in Liberia in 1829 before being reunited with some
of his children who came to Liberia in 1831.
