Omar Ibn Said

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Omar Ibn Said (1770 – 1864) was a writer and Islamic scholar, born and educated in what is now Senegal in West Africa, who was enslaved and transported to the United States in 1807. There, while enslaved for the remainder of his life, he wrote a series of works of history and theology, including a posthumously famous autobiography.

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1 Book by Omar Ibn Said