Omar Ibn (Sayyid) Said (1770 - 1864)

Born 1770 in Futa Tooro, Senegal

Died 1864 at about age 94 in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

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Omar (Sayyid) Said has African ancestry.

Omar ibn Said was a creator and Islamic analyst imagined and trained in what is now Senegal in West Africa, who was oppressed and moved to the United States in 1807. There, while oppressed, he made a movement out of works of history and strict way of thinking, including an after death praised assortment of journals.^[1]

Omar ibn Sayyid was born about 1770 in Futa Tooro, Senegal, West Africa. He died 1864 (aged 94) in Bladen County, North Carolina, US. his nationality was Senegalese; African American. Other names he was called, Uncle Moreau, and Prince Omeroh. His formal education was Islamic education in Senegal in West Africa. Omar ibn Sayyid was known for Islamic Scholar, author of Slave narratives.

Omar Ibn Said (1770-1864, otherwise known as "Uncle Moro" or "Moreau") was the child of an affluent family in what is currently Senegal, who got a researcher's instruction. He was subjugated and brought to South Carolina in 1807, not long before the bringing in of slaves was banned. Fleeing his abusive South Carolina master, he fled north and eventually arrived in Fayetteville, where he was captured while praying in a church. Later purchased by James Owen, the longer-term president of the Wilmington and Raleigh Railroad and major-general of the militia. He left 14 compositions in Arabic, including a fractional duplicate of the Quran done from memory, articles on history and religious philosophy, and a live account.

Sources

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_ibn_Said

• https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2019/03/08/omar-ibn-said-autobiography
• https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/omarsaid/summary.html
• https://www.loc.gov/collections/omar-ibn-said-collection/about-this-collection/
• https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/omar-ibn-said-1770-1864/
• http://africaaccessreview.org/discover-africa-in-the-americas/united-states/discover-africa-in-north-carolina/omar-ibn-said/

Books

• A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said, ed. and translated by Ala Alryyes (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011).
• Thomas C. Parramore, "Muslim Slave Aristocrats in North Carolina," North Carolina Historical Review Vol. 77 No. 2 (April 2000): pp 127–150
• A Muslim American Slave

The Life of Omar Ibn Said Omar Ibn Said Translated from the Arabic, edited, and with an introduction by Ala Alryyes

• https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4789.htm
• https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/omar-ibn-said-autobiography-digitized