@histodons #islam #northamrica #slavenarrative #OmarIbnSaid "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." https://uncpress.org/book/9781469674674/i-cannot-write-my-life/