God's land
It talks about its hero (Omar bin Sayyid) who was born in Senegal in 1770 AD, and grew up there until 1800 AD, when an army came and occupied his country, and took him as a slave to (Charleston) in southern North America.
Omar grew up educated, had memorized the Qur’an, was well-off, and married before he was enslaved, leaving his wife pregnant...
After years of slavery, he did not know whether she had been enslaved with him in the same campaign or in other subsequent campaigns of slave traders, and he did not know whether she had given birth to their only son or not...
But despite that, he remains attached to the hope that he will be freed from his slavery and meet them...
But his hopes were not fulfilled, and he died as a slave in 1863 AD, after he had passed the age of ninety; that is, one year before American President Abraham Lincoln approved the abolition of slavery...
A manuscript written on parchment is found, in which he narrates his life story before he died. These parchments are real and are kept by the US Library of Congress, which released them to the public a short time ago...
It is the story of a Muslim scholar who lived in slavery for more than sixty years, during which he was subjected to countless forms of injustice, humiliation, torture and pain...
The novel is narrated through memoirs or letters sent by the hero to his son, who he does not know whether he is still alive after all these long years have passed or not.
Keywords: Intellectual Creativity for Publishing and Distribution, Ayman Al-Atoum, Ayman Al-Atoum
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Number of pages: 528
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Language: Arab
Binding: Paperback
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Publication Year: 2020
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