I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America by Carl W. Ernst, Mbaye Lo

I Cannot Write My Life: Islam, Arabic, and Slavery in Omar Ibn Said's America

Carl W. Ernst, Mbaye Lo

232 pages • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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Omar ibn Said (1770–1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. In 1831 Omar composed a brief autobiography, the only known narr...

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