In 1880, Maksut Arab Becir Yusuf, an African-born man, was taken captive at the age of 12 by a neighboring tribe in Africa and sold in Tripolis. Here he was bought by an Albanian merchant named Beqir Jusuf who then liberated the African. After some time, he released him, married him and gave him a horse.
“One of the largest was Maksut Arab Bećir Yusuf. He was talking to Mr. Bulatović (meaning Ljub A. Bulatović, a former teacher in Ulcinj, author of several works related to the history of seafaring and piracy in Ulcinj) that he was born in Africa, and that his father was a tribal chief. His tribe was at odds with a neighbor tribe.
Once, when Maksut was twelve years old, playing outside the village, he was caught by people from a neighboring tribe, taken to Tripolis and sold as a slave to a man from Ulcinj, named Bećir Bećir Jusuf, who brought him to Ulcinj. After some time, the master released him, married him and gave him a horse, and he rented a house between Ulcinj and Bar.
Two or three years later the liberation of Ulcinj from the Austrians, its former master, Bećir Jusuf, went to Constantinople to settle there. Maksut went with him, whose wife and one girl had died, and he was single. Crying, he said goodbye to the people of Ulcinj. He was disappointed in Constantinople. Bekir took poor care of him, and he was already old and exhausted, so he returned to Ulcinj, where he died on October 12, 1923.”
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Balkan Academia 