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spanishspy Fleet admiral Posts: 10,366 Likes: 1,587	The Only Surviving Text Written in Arabic by an American Slave Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Read Jan 24, 2019 4:06:04 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by spanishspy on Jan 24, 2019 4:06:04 GMT Fascinating how he kept his faith - and sad that he, a scholar, was enslaved in the first place.
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The Only Surviving Text Written in Arabic by an American Slave Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Read Jan 24, 2019 10:04:18 GMT spanishspy likes this

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Jan 24, 2019 4:06:04 GMT spanishspy said:

Fascinating how he kept his faith - and sad that he, a scholar, was enslaved in the first place.

Possibly that might have been a factor, if he fell foul of some local bigwig in Senegal, that led to his enslavement and being sold to westerners? He seems to have got off relatively lightly compared to many enslaves people even after a couple of escape events, but I suspect he would still have had a lot of unpleasant experiences, even apart from the basic loss of liberty.

Must admit when I 1st saw the thread title I was thinking it was a white American who had been enslaved in N Africa by the Barbary pirates.

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The Only Surviving Text Written in Arabic by an American Slave Has Been Digitized & Put Online: Read

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