Captured in Africa at the age of eight and sold to a Russian nobleman in Constantinople, Abram Hannibal was given as a slave to Czar Peter the Great of Russia. Hannibal was born as the son of the reigning African prince in the Eritrean highland. Peter the Great of Russia grew very fond of the young slave, […]

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