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Home of Omar ibn Said, an enslaved West African scholar who wrote his life story in Arabic.

Omar ibn Said, a scholar from Futa Toro in Senegal, was enslaved and shipped to the Carolinas in 1807. In 1831 he wrote a short autobiography in Arabic, opening with Surah al-Mulk, one of the few such texts by an enslaved person in America.

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