American Literature / Unit 12 AML 1135 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nicholas Said and the Widening Archive
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The idea
Nicholas Said, born in the Bornu Empire in what is now Nigeria, was sold in the trans-Saharan trade, served enslavers across Europe, learned many languages, and published a memoir in eighteen seventy-two. Anthologies now print him beside the period's better-known writers.
In practice
A memoir written in a fifth language.
Where people slip
The archive keeps enlarging by recovery.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Unlocks
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