South Carolina - History Lab https://historylab.es Thu, 12 Jan 2023 10:35:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg South Carolina - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 How the autobiography of a Muslim slave is challenging an American narrative https://historylab.es/how-the-autobiography-of-a-muslim-slave-is-challenging-an-american-narrative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-the-autobiography-of-a-muslim-slave-is-challenging-an-american-narrative Thu, 01 Dec 2022 12:41:10 +0000 https://historylab.es/how-the-autobiography-of-a-muslim-slave-is-challenging-an-american-narrative/ The history of Omar Ibn Said, from West Africa to America (Charleston)

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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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