‘Tell Your Story, Omar’

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In 1721 an ancestor of mine in South Carolina, Elias Ball, bought a Muslim woman named Fatima on the wharf in the port city of Charleston and brought her twenty-five miles inland to his rice plantation on the Cooper River. The Ball family had enslaved West Africans and Native Americans for two decades by then, […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/05/25/tell-your-story-omar-opera-giddens-abels/

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