{"product_id":"i-cannot-write-my-life-9781469674674","title":"I Cannot Write My Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOmar ibn Said (1770-1863) was a Muslim scholar from West Africa who spent more than fifty years enslaved in the North Carolina household of James Owen, brother of Governor John Owen. Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst here weave fresh and accurate translations of Omar's eighteen surviving writings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on scrupulous close readings of Said's work, Lo and Ernst make a worthy contribution to the scholarship on slavery in America and testify to the importance of evidence left behind by enslaved people themselves. This edifies.\"—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867165995351,"sku":"9781469674674","price":18.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781469674674.jpg?v=1722281993","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/i-cannot-write-my-life-9781469674674","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}