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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Said, Omar Ibn. Muslim American Slave : The Life of Omar Ibn Said. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2014 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Omar Ibn Said; Ala Alryyes |
ISBN: | 9780299249533 0299249530 |
OCLC Number: | 1043364329 |
Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages). |
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. |
Series Title: | Wisconsin studies in autobiography. |
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