Muslim American Slave The Life of Omar Ibn Said

Name: Muslim American Slave The Life of Omar Ibn Said
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ISBN: 9780299249540

ISBN-10: 0299249549

ISBN-13: 9780299249540

Edition: 2011

Authors: Omar Ibn Said, Ala Alryyes

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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 7/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 216
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.748

Ala Alryyes is associate professor of comparative literature and English at Yale. He is author ofOriginal Subjects: The Child, the Novel, and the Nation. He lives in Brooklyn.



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Chronology


Introduction: ï¿½Arabic Work,ï¿½ 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



ï¿½God Does Not Allow Kings to Enslave Their Peopleï¿½: Islamic Reformists and the Transatlantic Slave Trade



Representing the West in the Arabic Language: The Slave Narrative of Omar Ibn Said




Omar's Earliest Known Manuscript (1819)




Letter from Reverend Isaac Bird, of Hartford, Connecticut, to Theodore Dwight, of Brooklyn, New York (April 1, 1862)



ï¿½Uncle Moreau,ï¿½ from North Carolina University Magazine (September 1854)



Ralph Gurley's ï¿½Secretary's Report,ï¿½ from African Repository and Colonial Journal (July 1837)


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