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When few enslaved people in the United States could write, one man wrote his memoir in Arabic

Omar ibn Said had been a Muslim scholar in West Africa, where he was abducted in 1807. The Library of Congress has just acquired his memoir, which is believed to be the only known document of its kind.

 

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