A diary of a slave written in arabic. Up next, a collection of documents bearing the name of omar ibn said. Ms. Deeb i am mary jane deeb, chief of the african middle east division here at the library of congress. Im here to tell you about this fantastic acquisition the library has made in 2017. It is only now available to the public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has b
Public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has been well known. For the last almost 200 years, its existence has not been known. It is not a mystery. It has been passed on from hand to hand. It has been at certain times owned by people and disappeared from everyones of you and then it reappears. The latest owner was an africanamerican collector of africana and historic docu
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