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 "id": "source/claiming-freedom-salih-bilali",
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 "label": {
  "en": "Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia — the Salih Bilali passage"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "من كتاب أكاديمي صادر عن مطبعة جامعة ساوث كارولينا ⁦(منصّة Manifold)⁩: «وُلد صالح [بلالي] سنة 1765، وأُسر على أيدي تجار العبيد سنة 1790... ووصل إلى أمريكا الشمالية سنة 1800 وصار السائق الرئيس في مزرعة كانونز بوينت بجزيرة سانت سايمنز التابعة لجون كوبر. ورغم أنه سُمّي توم، ظلّ صالح مسلمًا متدينًا وظلّ يشير إلى نفسه باسم صالح.»",
  "en": "From a scholarly book published by the University of South Carolina Press, read on its Manifold platform, chapter 1 ('The Slave's Dream'): Salih Bilali was born in 1765, captured by slavers in 1790 as the Bambara consolidated control of the Upper Niger, confined at Anomabu on the Gold Coast, and arrived in North America in 1800, becoming head driver on John Couper's Cannon's Point plantation on St. Simons Island; given the name Tom, he 'remained a devout Muslim and continued to refer to himself as Salih'."
 },
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 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "title": "Claiming Freedom: Race, Kinship, and Land in Nineteenth-Century Georgia",
  "publisher": "University of South Carolina Press (Manifold edition)",
  "URL": "https://manifold.sc.edu/read/claiming-freedom-race-kinship-and-land-in-nineteenth-century-georgia/section/ee63bbeb-fc4d-45d7-af89-3950319fddd8",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Book chapter read on the publisher's own Manifold platform on 3 November 2026; the passage quoted is from chapter 1, at its note 68. Its dating (born 1765, captured 1790, arrived 1800) is one of three competing scholarly readings and is preserved as such in the person record. The chapter names John Couper as the plantation owner where the exhibit page names his son James Hamilton Couper, the account's author; the person record follows the exhibit on the son as the writer of the surviving account.",
  "type": "web",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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}