A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said by Said, Omar Ibn - 2011

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University of Wisconsin Press. New. New University of Wisconsin Press, 2011-07-20 New Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling "the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language," as one local newspaper reported Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said's narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it This edition… Read More

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Paperback / softback. New. This authoritative edition and translation of the only surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic offers an invaluable addition to our understanding of the literature written by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that "Islam" and "America" are not mutually exclusive terms.

Univ of Wisconsin Pr, 2011. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 216 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.51 inches.