Talk:Daaga

Did you know nomination

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The result was: promoted by HurricaneZeta (talk) 22:51, 14 December 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Daaga was freed from a slave ship by the Royal Navy, but executed by the British Army less than a year later?

• Source: * "Daaga came to the Caribbean on the 179-tons burthen brigantine Phoenix [...] the Vestal crew saw the Phoenix off Grenada at 5.20pm on 28 September [1836] and captured it that night". (Henderson 2009, pp. 136-137, offline source included in article)
• "Three men, including Dâaga, were executed by firing squad in August [1837]". ( Dâaga the Rebel on Land and at Sea, p. 168, via Jstor)

• • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Macrobrachium xmas, Template:Did you know nominations/Music for the Masses

Moved to mainspace by ITBF (talk). Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 25 past nominations.

I T B F 📢 06:28, 22 November 2025 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Hook and article are all good. Ready for DYK. Regards, Jeromi Mikhael 17:14, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

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