Prince Among Slaves - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prince Among Slaves write by Terry Alford. This book was released on 1986. Prince Among Slaves available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An educated, aristocratic slave, Abd Rahman Ibrahima was overseer of the large cotton and tobacco plantation of his master. After more than twenty-five years, when he was finally freed, sixty-six-year-old Ibrahima sailed for Africa with his wife, two sons, and several grandchildren, and died there of fever just five months after his arrival. Prince Among Slaves is the first full account of Ibrahima's life, pieced together from first-person accounts and historical documents. It is not only a remarkable story, but the story of a remarkable man, who endured the humiliation of slavery without ever losing his dignity or his hope for freedom.
The History of Mary Prince
The History of Mary Prince - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The History of Mary Prince write by Mary Prince. This book was released on 2012-04-26. The History of Mary Prince available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prince — a slave in the British colonies — vividly recalls her life in the West Indies, her rebellion against physical and psychological degradation, and her eventual escape in 1828 in England.
A Muslim American Slave
A Muslim American Slave - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Muslim American Slave write by Omar Ibn Said. This book was released on 2011-07-20. A Muslim American Slave available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Born to a wealthy family in West Africa around 1770, Omar Ibn Said was abducted and sold into slavery in the United States, where he came to the attention of a prominent North Carolina family after filling “the walls of his room with piteous petitions to be released, all written in the Arabic language,” as one local newspaper reported. Ibn Said soon became a local celebrity, and in 1831 he was asked to write his life story, producing the only known surviving American slave narrative written in Arabic. In A Muslim American Slave, scholar and translator Ala Alryyes offers both a definitive translation and an authoritative edition of this singularly important work, lending new insights into the early history of Islam in America and exploring the multiple, shifting interpretations of Ibn Said’s narrative by the nineteenth-century missionaries, ethnographers, and intellectuals who championed it. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction, contextual essays and historical commentary by leading literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora, photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. This edition presents the English translation on pages facing facsimile pages of Ibn Said’s Arabic narrative, augmented by Alryyes’s comprehensive introduction and by photographs, maps, and other writings by Omar Ibn Said. The volume also includes contextual essays and historical commentary by literary critics and scholars of Islam and the African diaspora: Michael A. Gomez, Allan D. Austin, Robert J. Allison, Sylviane A. Diouf, Ghada Osman, and Camille F. Forbes. The result is an invaluable addition to our understanding of writings by enslaved Americans and a timely reminder that “Islam” and “America” are not mutually exclusive terms. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians
A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman
A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman write by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. This book was released on 1828. A Statement with Regard to the Moorish Prince, Abduhl Rahhahman available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
White Gold
White Gold - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook White Gold write by Giles Milton. This book was released on 2012-04-12. White Gold available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the forgotten story of the million white Europeans, snatched from their homes and taken in chains to the great slave markets of North Africa to be sold to the highest bidder. Ignored by their own governments, and forced to endure the harshest of conditions, very few lived to tell the tale. Using the firsthand testimony of a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow, Giles Milton vividly reconstructs a disturbing, little known chapter of history. Pellow was bought by the tyrannical sultan of Morocco who was constructing an imperial pleasure palace of enormous scale and grandeur, built entirely by Christian slave labour. As his personal slave, he would witness first-hand the barbaric splendour of the imperial court, as well as experience the daily terror of a cruel regime. Gripping, immaculately researched, and brilliantly realised, WHITE GOLD reveals an explosive chapter of popular history, told with all the pace and verve of one of our finest historians.
