ISBN:
9780299249540
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (240 p)
Series Statement:
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
Series Statement:
Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said
DDC:
306.362092
Keywords:
African American Muslims - North Carolina - History
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African American Muslims - North Carolina - History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction: "Arabic Work," Islam, and American Literature -- The Life -- The Life of Omar Ibn Said, Written by Himself -- Autobiography of Omar Ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831 -- Contextual Essays -- Muslims in Early America -- Contemporary Contexts for Omar's Life and Life -- The United States and Barbary Coast Slavery -- "God Does Not Allow Kings to Enslave Their People": Islamic Reformists and the Transatlantic Slave Trade -- Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said -- Appendix 1: Omar's Earliest Known Manuscript (1819) -- Appendix 2: Letter from Reverend Isaac Bird, of Hartford, Connecticut, to Theodore Dwight, of Brooklyn, New York (April 1, 1862) -- Appendix 3: "Uncle Moreau," from North Carolina University Magazine (September 1854) -- Appendix 4: Ralph Gurley's "Secretary's Report," from African Repository and Colonial Journal (July 1837) -- Contributors.
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