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Omar Ibn Said: Conserving a One-of-a-Kind Manuscript

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(This is a repost from the Library of Congress Blog.  The author is Sylvia Albro, a senior paper conservator in the Conservation Division. Earlier this month, the Library released online the Omar Ibn Said Collection, including Omar Ibn Said’s autobiography, the only known extant autobiography written in Arabic by an enslaved person in the United …

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New Online: Rare 19th Century Autobiography in Arabic by an Enslaved West African Scholar

Posted by: Anchi Hoh

(This is a repost from the Library of Congress Blog. The author is Mary-Jane Deeb, chief of the African and Middle Eastern Division.) In the summer of 2017, the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress acquired a collection of unique documents, some dating back to the 1830s. Although the documents are …