A diary of a slave written in arabic. Up next, a collection of documents bearing the name of omar ibn said. Ms. Deeb i am mary jane deeb, chief of the african middle east division here at the library of congress. Im here to tell you about this fantastic acquisition the library has made in 2017. It is only now available to the public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has b
Exploring American History. Next, a look at recent visit to Traverse City, michigan. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Until 1863, 90 5 of the settlement, was about the fur , missionaries to the indians, logging industry, et cetera. After 1863, the United States government decided to give away all of their land. After that, any citizen or future citizen of the u. S. Could have 160 acres of land as long as they would live on it and improve it for five years. That created a monumental change to this area and all of michigan and the country. A fair percentage of them, 30 or 40 did come over land. Others, my ancestors from pennsylvania, came west of buffalo from the pittsburgh area. From buffalo, they went to northport, and then they unloaded all of the above, the wagons, the livestock, the horses, everything, and traveled overland 70 miles south to northport. The land at the mouth of the river was settled by an individual named boardman in 1847. In
Public digitally on our website. We would like to show you the items themselves and talk about them. The core of this collection is the omar ibn said biography. Autobiography, in fact. It is written in arabic. It was a biography written in 1831 by a man who was enslaved a couple of decades earlier. He was asked to write his autobiography, which he did. You asked me to write my life. Im not able to do this because i have much forgotten my own, as well as the arab language. Neither can i write very grammatically or according to the true idiom. So, my brother, i beg you not to blame me because i am a man of weak eyes and a weak body. Ms. Deeb this autobiography has been well known. For the last almost 200 years, its existence has not been known. It is not a mystery. It has been passed on from hand to hand. It has been at certain times owned by people and disappeared from everyones of you and then it reappears. The latest owner was an africanamerican collector of africana and historic docu
720 of these people are children. Hamas has issued a statement demanding the permanent opening of the rafah crossing on the border of the gaza strip with egypt and has emphasized the need to transport the injured and the arrival of humanitarian aid. Condition he went to gaza for emergency relief. Guterres said that behind these walls, 2 Million People are suffering terribly and do not have water or food. In the continuation of the zionist attacks on noor gaza and following the bombing of a palestinians house in alnusirat camp , the bodies of 11 martyrs have been pulled out from under the rubble and several wounded have been taken to alaqsa hospital. Images of the clashes in ramallah in the west bank have also been published. The number of martyrs in the west bank since the start of the zionist attacks on gaza has reached 81 martyrs and more than 1,400 wounded. In the new attack of the three soldiers to the camp noura alshams, 13 palestinians were martyred, five of whom were children. A
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