When few enslaved people in the United States could write, one man wrote his memoir i

[The Patriot]

When few enslaved people in the United States could write, one man wrote his memoir in Arabic

01-20-2019 04:56 PM

The Library of Congress announced last week it had bought the famous Arabic-language memoir of Omar ibn Said, a Muslim West African scholar who was abducted by slavers in 1807 and eventually owned by a North Carolina congressman.


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