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 "id": "source/ldhi-salih-bilali",
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 "slug": "ldhi-salih-bilali",
 "label": {
  "en": "Salih Bilali and Bilali Mohammed — Lowcountry Digital History Initiative"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "صفحة معرض «مسلمون أفارقة مستعبدون ومحرَّرون» التابع لمبادرة التاريخ الرقمي للوكنتري ⁦(كلية تشارلستون)⁩: صالح بلالي وُلد نحو 1790 في ماسينا على نهر النيجر ⁦(مالي اليوم)⁩، وأُسر وبِيع عبر ساحل الذهب إلى جزر البهاما ثم إلى جيمس هاملتون كوبر الذي أخذه إلى مزرعة كانونز بوينت في جزيرة سانت سايمنز بجورجيا، حيث ترقّى حتى صار السائق الرئيس، وسُجّل في بعض قيود البيع باسم «توم».",
  "en": "Exhibit page of 'Enslaved and Freed African Muslims: Spiritual Wayfarers in the South and Lowcountry' (Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, College of Charleston): Salih Bilali was born around 1790 in Massina on the Niger River (present-day Mali), captured and sold along the Gold Coast to the Bahamas, then sold to James Hamilton Couper, who took him to Cannon's Point plantation on St. Simons Island, Georgia, where he rose to head driver; some sale records note him as 'Tom'. It quotes Couper on him: 'his industry, intelligence, and honesty, soon brought him notice, and he was successively advanced, until he was made head driver.'"
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
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 "data": {
  "kind": "secondary",
  "title": "Salih Bilali and Bilali Mohammed",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Lowcountry Digital History Initiative",
    "given": ""
   }
  ],
  "publisher": "Lowcountry Digital History Initiative, College of Charleston",
  "URL": "https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/african-muslims-in-the-south/five-african-muslims/salih-bilali-bilali-mohammed",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Scholarly digital exhibit read in full on 3 November 2026. It is the most careful short account of Salih Bilali read for this record, and it is explicit that the surviving records are the enslavers' and their descendants'. Its birth year (c. 1790) is the latest of the readings in the scholarship and conflicts with the c. 1765 and 1770s readings elsewhere; all readings are preserved in the person record. The exhibit page once misprints his name as 'Sahil Bilali'.",
  "type": "web",
  "open_access": true,
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-11-06",
 "connections": [],
 "related": [],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}