The video tells the story of Omar Ibn Said, an African Muslim scholar who was kidnapped and spent his life as a slave in the United States.
Omar Ibn Said was an educated Muslim scholar from Senegal.
Kidnapped and sold into slavery in the US.
in 1807.
His memoirs, written in Arabic, refute the stereotype that African slaves were illiterate at the time.
Ibn Said's Memoirs, a 15-page manuscript, is the only known autobiography of a slave written in Arabic to survive in the United States.
It begins with Surah Al-Mulk of the Qur'an.
The Library of Congress acquired Ibn Said's autobiography in 2017 and published it online for public viewing.
Historians believe that Ibn Said's supposed conversion to Christianity was forced, as Islamic prayers and quotations from the Koran are hidden in the text of the memoirs.