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Creator:: Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863
Published / Created:: circa 1819.
Call Number:: JWJ MSS 185
Image Count:: 11
Resource Type:: text
Abstract:: Autograph letter, in Arabic Maghrabi script, conveying a greeting to Major John Owen in Raleigh, and consisting chiefly of quotations from the Qur'an and from treatises on Arabic grammar. Quotations from the Qur'an include: Sūrat al-Najm (21-23); Sūra...
Description:: Omar ibn Said, also known as Moro or Moreau, was a West African Muslim born and educated in the Futa Toro region on the Senegal River. He was sold into slavery in approximately 1807 and transported to the United States. From approximately 1810 until t...
Subject (Geographic):: North Carolina., Africa., North Carolina, Cape Fear River Region., United States., Cape Fear River Region (N.C.), and United States
Subject (Name):: Key, Francis Scott, 1779-1843., Owen, James, 1784-1865., Owen, John, 1787-1841., Said, Omar ibn, 1770?-1863., Taylor, John Louis, 1769-1829., and American Colonization Society.
Subject (Topic):: African American Muslims, African Americans, Colonization, Arabic language, Grammar, Slavery, Enslaved persons, Enslaved persons' writings, American, and Race relations
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Omar ibn Said letter : manuscript