Ayuba Suleiman Diallo — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701–1773), known in England as Job ben Solomon: a Fulani Muslim prince and scholar of Bundu (present-day Senegal), captured in 1730 and sold to Maryland, ransomed and brought to London in 1733 — where his portrait was painted and he copied the Qur'an from memory — returned home in 1734, and his death recorded in 1773.