Beta Israel materials, ACLS Collection
Culture:
Language: English
Date: undated
Contributor: Unknown
Subject: Biography | Travel | Benin--History
Type: Text
Genre: Travel narratives | Autobiographies
Extent: 9 pages
Description: The sole Beta Israel manuscript in the ACLS papers is item 3, "Autobiography of a native of Dahomey, West Africa". It is an autobiographical account from a descendant of Beta Israel from Abomey-Calavi, Dahomey (now Benin).
Collection: ACLS Collection (American Council of Learned Societies Committee on Native American Languages, American Philosophical Society) Mss.497.3.B63c