Where did African Americans come from? "Prince Among slaves"

This documentary is called "Prince Among slaves"

http://upf.tv/upf06/Films/PrinceAmongSlaves/Film/tabid/249/Default.aspx


"The museum plans to highlight a little-known connection between its host state and the manuscripts of Timbuktu: the story of Ibrahima Abd ar-Rahman, an 18th-century prince from what is now Guinea who studied at Timbuktu before being sold into slavery in Natchez, Miss. The prince's saga contradicts another widely held Western belief -- that Africans sold in the slave trade were uncivilized. In fact, many were doctors, dentists, lawyers, professors, musicians and members of royal families. And a large number were Muslim"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45889-2005Feb23_3.html

Another documentary on West Africa, a far away land that has captured the imaginations of countless Europeans

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001078G08/ref=atv_dp_se_to_ep?ie=UTF8&r...


In Africa (a quarter of the world)

men's skin are black, their hair is crisp and curled;

And somewhere there, unknown to public view,

A mighty city lies called Timbuktu.
-William Thackeray

Category:

Education

Tags:

• west
• Africa
• American
• ancient
• Negro
• history
• Savanna
• Guinea
• coast
• slave
• racism
• ignorance
• documentary
• movie
• entertainment

[mirasprofile]

Amazing documentary with knowledge I did not know before,very touching and emotional,thank you for making it and enlightening us on important an dark part of our American history.In Islam Abul is " servant of God,and Rahman is "mercy of God, two names most favored by God we are told.

[elthemighty]

great documentary

[TipTacBoomoo7]

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[TipTacBoomoo7]

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[EthanPrometheus]

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[pthebeast2]

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