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Mbaye Lo

Mbaye Lo

Professor of the Practice of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
mbaye.lo@duke.edu
Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708-0414
2204 Erwin Road Room 231, Box 90414, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Monday & Wednesday 2-5 pm  

Scholarly Works - Digital publications

Omar ibn Said

Digital publication · April 19, 2023 Omar ibn Sayyid (Said is the more prevalent Anglicized version of his name; 1770–1863), a West African Muslim scholar, was enslaved in North Carolina from 1810 until his death in 1863. Omar was captured in Futa Toro, modern-day Senegal in 1807 and transpor ... Full text Cite