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Ali Eisami Gazirma, that is, Ali, the son of Eisa, from Gazir, (born 1789–1790), later known as William Harding, was a Kanuri man from Bornu. He was enslaved in around 1814 in the aftermath of warefare in Western Bornu. After being sold at a coastal slave market, he and other captives were liberated at sea in 1818 by the British Royal Navy, who enforced the Blockade of Africa to abolish the Atlantic slave trade. They were resettled as Liberated Africans in the colony of Sierra Leone in West Africa, where Eisami spent the rest of his life. Between 1848 and 1852 he worked with the German missionary Sigismund Koelle in creating a Kanuri grammar. In the process, Koelle recorded a range of fables, stories and reports, as well as a short autobiographical sketch of Eisami.