FWD: “When few enslaved people in the United States could write, one man wrote his memoir in Arabic” - The Washington Post

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PRESENTER

Laila Mokhiber

ORIGINAL CITY 

DC

Original Date

January 27, 2019

Description

A fwd on a Washington Post article I read about Omar Ibn Said, who wrote the only known surviving slave account in Arabic.

Sources & Future References

• https://www.loc.gov/collections/omar-ibn-said-collection/about-this-collection/

• https://www.loc.gov/item/2018371864/

• https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/jais/volume/docs/vol5/5_hunwick.pdf

• https://docsouth.unc.edu/highlights/podcasts/audio/said.mp3

• https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/summary.html

• https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/omar-ibn-said-1770-1864/

• https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-19-004/only-known-surviving-muslim-american-slave-autobiography-goes-online-at-the-library-of-congress/2019-01-15/

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/only-surviving-arabic-slave-narrative-united-statesdigitized-library-congress-180971298/
  

Contact Info

Email: lailamo@gmail.com Instagram: @lailamo

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