Omar Ibn Said' Autobiography
While this resistance is evident in Said’s autobiography, it is also important to ask whether or not Said is representative of a wider group of literate Muslim Africans who survived the Middle Passage or if his autobiography is more idiosyncratic. In either case, Said’s narrative speaks to a particular silence or omission in previous understandings of the Black Atlantic archive. While his narrative is not the only Muslim African slave narrative written in the Black Atlantic, his offers a compelling account, written outside of English and Christian paradigms and traditions, ultimately decentering the authority of colonial accounts of the Black Atlantic.