Tag: How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative

https://youtu.be/EBQelGvwkhE Omar Ibn Said was 37 years old when he was taken from his West African home and transported to Charleston, South Carolina, as a slave in the 1800s. Now, his one-of-a-kind autobiographical manuscript has been translated from its original Arabic and housed at the Library of Congress, where it “annihilates” the conventional narrative of…