How The Autobiography Of A Muslim Slave Is Challenging An American Narrative
PBS NewsHour
Apr 2019 · NewsHour Productions · Narrated by PBS NewsHour
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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 African slaves as uneducated and uncultured. Amna Nawaz reports.
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