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How Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels turned an enslaved man's narrative into an opera

Por: Los Angeles Times Entertainment October 21, 2022

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Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar from Senegal, wrote an autobiography in 1831 about how he was captured and sold into slavery for decades in the Carolinas. His memoir, written in Arabic, brims with quotations from the Quran; his “Christian” owners stood over his shoulder as he wrote. Yet Said captured the true story of who he was between the lines. “You realize that he’s telling you far more with his choices of Quranic verses,” says... + full article



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