"In 'A Muslim American Slave,' Mr. Alryyes's excellent commentary is accompanied by other scholarly essays that examine Ibn Said's West African homeland and Michael Gomez's history of the antebellum influx of Muslim slaves to the United States. The reader gleans a sense not only of Omar Ibn Said but also of the historical forces that shaped him."/5(). · A Muslim American Slave The Life of Omar Ibn Said Omar Ibn Said Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography William L. Andrews, Series Editor Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians "Then there came to our country a big army. Read Book A Muslim American Slave The Arabic Life Of Omar Ibn Said Wisconsin Studies In Autobiography how you view the slave trade and show that many commonly held beliefs about this controversial subject are almost wholly inaccurate and mistaken.
Omar Ibn Said was part of the Fula ethnic group in West Africa, somewhere between modern-day Senegal and the Gambia. After surviving the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Oman Ibn Said was then sold to a white man named Johnson, who according to Said's diaries treated him with cruelty. *an enslaved Muslim in the United States Omar ibn Said was an educated Muslim African born about in Futa Toro (modern Senegal), captured at age 37 and brought to South Carolina to be sold. He remained enslaved until his death in Perhaps ten percent of the enslaved Africans transported to the Americas were Muslim. Although Omar. A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said [Omar Ibn Said and Ala Alryyes]. Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around , Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a promi.
Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around , 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. —Omar Ibn Said Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around , 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. The Omar Ibn Said Collection consists of 42 digitized documents in both English and Arabic, including an manuscript in Arabic on "The Life of Omar Ibn Said," a West African slave in America, which is the centerpiece of this unique collection of texts. Some of the manuscripts in this collection include texts in Arabic by another West African slave in Panama, and others from individuals located in West Africa.
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