My ancestors were enslaved, they were not slaves.

I am so happy that this document was found and that the world is able to see it.African people were scholars,mathematicians,engineers and scientists.Places of higher learning existed.

He had gorgeous penmanship. I pray more Americans learn of this man and his noble history.

This story brings tears to my eyes and joyful at the same time! I salute you from The Horn Of Africa (Mogadishu)

رحمك الله ياعمر بن سعيد وغفر ذنبك ورزقك الفردوس الاعلى

They say this is a voice they never heard before but I say these voices have always been there, they just didn’t care to listen…..May Allah be pleased with brother Omar ibn Said

This is an important part of the african history being denied for years

All the stuff they saying is fine & dandy ,but the bottom line is human being were stolen and sold and treated like beast for the purpose of profit and gain.

Thank God Almighty for allowing these artifacts to be discovered, saved and preserved for us today, this is an amazing part of our history, history for everyone to know and see and the TRUTH to be told! This is fantastic

Well and neat written Arabic. Good Graphics to. Same as written as of today

The region he specifies exists in Senégal today. Fuuta Toro is a region along the Senégal river. The practice of flood recession agriculture, similar to that of the Nile, enabled great agricultural prosperity as well as political organization and erudition. I’ve had the great fortune to visit my village in Thioubalel which is in fact located Between two rivers in Fuuta. My grandfather wrote using Arabic characters in The Pulaar language of the Fulani to other scholars and religious leaders. The Almamyat (Islamic Republic) of Fuuta Tooro was created in 1776 explicitly to protect citizens from foreign invasion and slavery. Anyone able to recite the Koran would be deemed a citizen and no one had the right to take them. This story is deeply touching to me on a personal level. Thanks to the LOC and the OP for this important work.

She lied at 3.06...There was no tribal warfare, they were raided by a big army sponsored and equipped for the purpose of capturing slaves for the merchants.It is clear from his own narrative "there came a big army to our country that killed many people..." If there was tribal warfare going on at that time, he would have known it and called out the tribe.

May Allah SWT bless your soul

Nice history of our people and i hope we learn from our forefathers God owns all we are just gatekeepers and gardener thank you OMAR.

I hard time excepting that other people seem to really believe that our ancestors had no culture or written language. How would that even be possible?

Boukman was the spritual guide of the Hatian Revolution. The book was the Koran. They burnt that book; held it on his chest. He carried that scar henceforth.

It's such a shame that people act like this is all new discoveries... all this had been hidden from us for a reason.....

Things get better when you believe, and make them better. The school system was created so that they could control our belief system. We will have to decolonize to heal.

His story should be given a chance to be made into a movie.

wonderful work guys.👍🏽😀this is a part of our History.thank you so much.

All praise be to Allah for giving Me My Arabic back

They know exactly who men like him were quit playing

I am soo grateful I came across this been working on art/letter new to art and was just wondering/researching what art actually is and now I'm inspired!!!!! Art is soo deep I love it

His writing is very smooth Masha'Allah

Thank you for sharing this information.

Abu Mas'ud al-Ansari reported: When I was beating my servant (slave), I heard a voice behind me (saying): Abu Mas'ud, bear in mind Allah has more dominance over you than you have upon him. I turned and (found him) to be Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him). I said: Allah's Messenger, I set him free for the sake of Allah. Thereupon he (peace be upon him) said: Had you not done that, (the gates of) Hell would have opened for you, or the fire would have burnt you. [Sahih Muslim 1659c]

The oppressors always denied the right of those human beings as they were psychotic to enslave other humans, they created their own lie to justify their evil actions, and how many other writers they destroyed and covered it up...May Allaah has a mercy on those who suffered the hands of those evildoers..amen

I'm inclined to believe that most slaves were highly educated and spiritual like this man. I mean think about it...they already knew agriculture, livestock and survival tactics when they arrived here. They taught the whites. Plus, they were able to survive the long, filthy, grueling trip across seas and then still survived and produced strong offspring after living a life of constant backbreaking labor and starvation. Europeans were either 1)too stupid to understand the blacks advanced capabilities or 2)too jealous/fearful to let history reflect the superiority of the african race. Either way, this is the biggest example of propaganda in the world!

تَبَارَكَ الَّذِي بِيَدِهِ الْمُلْكُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ (1) الَّذِي خَلَقَ الْمَوْتَ وَالْحَيَاةَ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا ۚ وَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْغَفُورُ (2) (1) Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent - (2) [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving -

To call them masters seems like an undeserved compliment and position of status. It’s also more accurate to call the people the enslaved (vs. slaves). It was something that was done to them. It didn’t define who they were.

I am so appreciative of the efforts made to make this knowledge available and known! Just curious: why aren't all these handlers wearing protective gloves while treating, touching, and the precious documents?🤯🤔 I'm sure they know what they're doing but when handling priceless designer clothing this is known policy

We were NEVER SLAVES we were ENSLAVED by other people. .

You called ıt rıch Amerıcan Hıstory but most the artıfacts ın that lıbrary are not Amerıcan hıstory and the story of omar ıbn saed ıs just one of them....and the sad part of thıs preservatıon ıs that u only care to preserve the tregıc part of hıs lıfe forgetıng where ıt started...

Omar Ibn said means, Omar son of Said.

Wow!! I have to visit South Carolina has so much history.... Very Powerful

Their is also a man named Abdulrahman

it should be noted that the army which kidnapped them was composed mainly of European mercenaries and some African trackers who were forced to engage with European slavers, otherwise they were either exterminated or sold into slavery as well and almost 90% of all free men kidnapped in West Africa were very cultured and proud Muslims. but when they were reduced to slavery in America they were Christianized with force and violence or else exchanged their Christianization with their freeings. so sad that the Black American community has forgotten these roots.

Great work on the part of those responsible for bringing to the fore this great story. This just confirms what benevolent people around the world have always held as the truth: No matter your perception of others, they are just HUMAN like you: Same spirit, the human spirit. Those brought here as slaves did have a history, a culture, all that you may call social values, contrary to what their so-called "masters" and some "phoolosophers" contended. Hope this definitely puts to rest the fallacy that the history of Black People starts at their first encounter with the White man. As Bob Marley puts it : "2000 years of history could not be wiped so easily"

Shukran

Now they wil finaly believe that their fore fathers were monotheistic , not trinitarians.

I think this man was my great great great parent, I am from in Fouta Toro and I have an great great great great mother is name is Oumou Hani and she was parent with Cheikhou Oumar Inb seyde I came from in family of great kingdom in Fouta Toro Baaba Maal can I think find the original of this man

I just want to point out the geographical location of is birth place. "Fouta" or "Futa" is a a region located in Guinea-Conakry. Fouta is not part of Senegal. In fact Senegal is a neighbor country of Guinea which is just above the Fouta Djallon and were used by the imperialists to enter Guinea. I appreciate everyone who participated in putting this in light for the African American and young panaAfricanist around the world. Salam

Slavery is the most horrible act in human history it's a black spot in their human history 😢💔

oh he has the same last name as me 🙌🏽

Imagine if Africa was untouched, imagine if the continent of Africa can ride again. That is my prayer, proud to be African.

This powerful mentally tough BLACK MAN endured the DEVIL and his EVIL for almost 40 years! A testament to the GREATNESS of the BLACK MAN!

Malcolm x had told american people that the black american was the Muslim before captured

I didn't hear anything about him talking about african selling africans

One has to question, who participated in the translation of Omar Inn Said's manuscript?

Crazy how these people aren't wearing gloves while handling these precious documents...

Respect due Malcolmx was write history was write about no man has a right to own another human being

Beautiful name

Its my grandfather his name is diallo. we are the descendants of the most powerful king that Africa has known with the negus of ethiopia. za el ayamen i in 650 is the first diallo. we are proud of grandfather that only death has humiliated

A verse from the Quran MashaAllah, Allah is supreme indeed.Highly cultured man.May Allah bless him in hereafter.

I served in Gao, Mali . Timbuktu is very close to Gao. Probably he was taught in Timbuktu. He is the descendant of prophet Muhammad. Sayyid is called as Sidi in northern Mali. He remained in his original faith. His dream will come true.

What's sad to me is the fact that word he used to describe the people who took him and enslaved him was "Christians" these weren't any kind of Çhristians in my eyes, fortunately this remarkable man encountered some genuine Christians later along. God bless you Omar Bin Said, utmost respect from Aotearoa/New Zealand ❤

And Alex Haley was ridiculed by many who claimed Roots was just the product of his imagination. I wish he lived to see this!!!

At that time Timbuktu University were like Havard University because world would wealth people used to send their kids to Timbuktu.

May Allah swt give him jannah al firdaus without reckoning. Āmīn. Isoh Christo ibn Maryam is dark skinned, not white, nor with straight hair. His name is not Jesus. People have been lied to and they blind follow everything. Don't they ever question what language he spoke, what they looked like in his time? Don't they ever ask where "white" folks came from?

She said * Fouta* a place in between two rivers. We're in 21 century. *Google it* Fouta is in senegal (North-west) Near Mauritania. Omar is from the *peulh-Fouta* tribe. One of the tribe that first embraced Islam via Mauritania. According to history most of the senegal's scholars are from the part of senegal (tribe) I.e Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, El Adji Omar *Foutiyou* Tall, Maba Diahou Ba etc..( who lived almost at the same century), Highly educated Muslim scholars who have written so many books in Arabic science and literature. Until now, they are using the same hand writting. As a Senegalese, I learnt the Quran on *wooden tablet* (Alliwu) in which , we used to write the Quran verses in the same way..

Masha Allah 🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲

The fulani are very smart people

In 1980 when I was going to public school in the 5th grade in Virginia, the first slave holding state we were told the truth about slavery. That we Black people along with some whites came over here to America as indentured servants not slaves. (That means they were educated they could read and write) And we were also taught the rich greedy corporation owners were the ones who came up with slavery and racism as a way to divide the workers against each other. Not much has changed in 400 years.You can see this in a history channel show called "Slavery And The Making Of America"

Stop twisting history! He never said he converted to christianity, He begins his scripture with surat al Mulk(kingship/royalty) in Quran it's enough as a proof of his islamic belief! Like me he is from fouta in Senegal. may Allah grant him Jannah

Sorry but I would like to hear the translation by someone other then the descendants of the enslavers.

It is infuriating when reporters or narrators say "salves or their masters". As if they didn't have a name. Those people had homes, business, and wealth. And very will educated more than Europe and united stated in that time. Europe were living in dark ages. And united state wants to build country on a man stolen from his own home to Europe transfered to the US. Those people should be called thugs not masters. The majorty of Africans were highly educated muslims just like Omar Ibn said, but these thugs wanted to erase their cultured and religion. Those thugs were so sick in the head they had them change their name because it was a threat to them.With great sadness those thugs succeeded erasing their true religion and culture. Shame on us racism still exists.

Were are you from Raghe?

Always known I'm not wht the white man say i am. I'am who i say I'm. No man chooses who I'm, I'll tell u. It's so sad tht everybdy suffers these days n time. These bad ppl need to b abolished

Anyone knows the name of the man playing Omer Voice?

"Then they came to our country a big army and killed many people" . He points towards foreign Americans who looted and plundered Africa and forcefully made African people slaves. The lady's statement that it was tribal warfare is absolutely false. Please do not mislead people and tell them about the dark past and terrible things Americans have done to humanity and still doing it.

Hes not the only one there have been both Muslim and jews who wrote about being taken but none of them mentioned African selling Africans. But even if u look it up ,timbuktu was none to have both jew and Muslim peoples and scholars in the city .this is the most famous city in west Africa and stood as a place for learning for all the old world. Why do people desire so hard to erase African scholarship? We had many city not even just Egypt

After his name is written"called Morro" and am just wondering what does that means because is pretty much like the word"MORO"like spanish called arabs..

If you are not in fear of man or woman, it makes absolutely no sense to slave that man or woman. If you are terrified and in fear of a particular man or woman, then you could see how an imperfect human being can resort to slaving someone. It all comes down to fear.

As Salamu Alaykum 🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻🤲🏻

you copyright an historical item ?

how come they haven't made a movie about him???

why does the voice actor have an accent?

1:59 says open your heart to the Bible. And his name is Omar . How this make sense?

Allah is God

Islam gives the men or women the right to their fathers name , it should never be changed, it signifies their place on earth without that men and woman are like leaves in the air that's why Muslim women have the right to keep their fathers name even after married, so even if she stays married or divorced or choose to be single her dignity of who she is before after marriage or during marriage she's retains dignity.. similarly a woman meant to stand next to men not behind men as we are equal insight of Allah.

So what happens now to the argument that slavery wasn't all bad because slaves somehow learned skills while they were slaves.

I’m so proud of him yet so angry ....Every African Country should build a Statue of Him.....Especially in Somalia 🇸🇴

Reach history . Are kidding me. UsA has got dark history week up people.

Where she got impression.about tribal.war?

Futa is still there in Senegambia and the most saddest thing about most slavery stories is full of lies because Africans do not sell their own people instead the white decided it and came to conquer us, done what ever they wanted. But there was never a tribal warfare in cause of slavery because Africans where not in contact with the outside world.

After being kidnapped and sold as a slave and getting abused, mentally physically and ways we cannot start to comprehend" by good and decent Christians I really don't think and am highly dubious when you say in this documentary he adopted Christianity as his religion!!!

رحم الله عمر ابن سعيد

Wow They presented their chained of authenticity like the Hadith Sahih Bukhari

Men like him were called Moors

Well it's very hard to swallow some certain truth, but in Omar ibn said case their land was attacked by large white army. He was sold by the army to the slave owners. Going back to history not only Africa but the world history, there was a tribal warfare going on across the globe. When tribes wage war against other tribe and if war prisoners are captured they are considered to be slaves until when their tribesmen will freed them by ransom. This was how it is across the globe. In many part of the world mostly Arab world, tribes signs alliance and friendship to protect each other from attacks. Unfortunately it was different in Africa. Tribes were not building that kind of friendship and alliance except in Ethiopia that's why Ethiopia was not conquered or colonized. When the white people understood that there's no friendship and alliance between African tribes they of course used the strategy to divide us which led to their massive success in conquering and enslaving us. This obviously cannot be denied that when one tribe conquered another tribe and captured war prisoners they sold them to the white people. If Africans responded with friendship and alliances like Ethiopia or the Arab world it would have been a different story. Surely there were serious resistance from tribes across the continent but so unfortunate there were no alliance.

This woman trying to contradict the book

Many slaves arrived as Jew, Christian and Muslim. Some were children of kings. they came from all over Africa because there’s no such thing as Middle East to God. America has a very gruesome and horrific history. Therefore their sin has matured in just 200 years . God’s judgement is already on America because the sin of humanity has reached the highest heaven. It is very sad that today’s American glorified the forefathers instead of repentance in sackcloth. Repent America!

The navigator end with “ America’s rich history” after telling us about SLAVERY 🙄#whitesupremacy

Thanks for an In formative post. John Barnett ❤revisited January 2024

See our Muslim civilization in Africa before Europe knew about civilization. Mali (officially Republic of Mali) Present-day Mali was once part of three West African empires that controlled trans-Saharan trade: the Ghana Empire , the Mali Empire , and the Songhai Empire. During its golden age, there was a flourishing of mathematics, astronomy, literature, and art. At its peak in 1300, the Mali Empire covered an area about twice the size of modern-day France and stretched to the west coast of Africa. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdWpg9Spq9WWh2w.html

Human trafficking is still operating . That makes him a prisoner of war.

RIP SHUKRAN that this was located and alters the narrative

Omg he was an Muslim! Highly educated muslim

White people definatio of black people doesn't have to be our reality, may Almighty Allah continues to guide and bless us

InshaAllah.. Black American revert to monotheis