A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said

by Omar Ibn Said

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299249549
• ISBN13: 9780299249540
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"