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Monday, September 26, 2011

The Autobiography in Arabic of a Senegalese Enslaved in North Carolina by Sylviane A. Diouf, Curator Of Digital Collections, Schomburg Center For Research In Black Culture

In 1831, Omar ibn Said, a Senegalese trader and Qur'anic teacher enslaved in North Carolina, wrote his autobiography in Arabic. It is the only known surviving slave narrative written in that…

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