Ali Eisami

Ali Eisami Gazirmabe of Bornu (born 1786–1787), later known as William Harding, was a Kanuri man liberated from slavery by the British Royal Navy.

The "Captured Negro Department" sent some as apprentices to the African-American settlers from North America, and some to previously liberated African individuals who had settled in Sierra Leone.

Others were settled in specially designed villages, which were named for English counties or prominent people and run by Europeans; many of those belonged to and were operated by the Church Missionary Society of Britain.

[2] Eisami described his enslavement as a result of the transatlantic slave trade in the same terms as other victims, as "the white man's barbaric cannibalism", in the words of historian William Dillon Piersen.

[4] The biography was included in Philip D. Curtin's 1967 anthology Africa remembered; narratives by West Africans from the era of the slave trade.