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Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

So they had, you know, people that were Koran memorizers, religious scholars, and they,...

So they had, you know, people that were Koran memorizers, religious scholars, and they, they rounded these people up and they sold them off into slavery, and you've got accounts that come, you know, from French slave traders like Jean Barbot in 1681 where he says, "I think there was somebody like this on one of the ships that I filled in Gorée." He said, "This black priest was aboard, was aboard my boat "for two months before he spoke a word, "so deep was his sorrow

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So they had, you know,
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people that were Koran memorizers,
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religious scholars, and they,
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they rounded these people up
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and they sold them off into slavery,
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and you've got accounts that come, you know,
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from French slave traders like Jean Barbot in 1681
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where he says, "I think there was somebody like this
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on one of the ships that I filled in Gorée."
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He said, "This black priest was aboard, was aboard my boat
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"for two months before he spoke a word,
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"so deep was his sorrow.
Duration
27 seconds
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21
Timestamp in Movie
00:18:39
Uploaded
Oct 29, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Zipporah Films,JustFilms / Ford Foundation,PBS

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A look within the walls of the New York Public Library.
I sold him in the American islands." - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:09
I sold him in the American islands."
Kings violated, you know, traditional protocols - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:18
Kings violated, you know, traditional protocols
And it's part of the reason why the slave trade - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:07
And it's part of the reason why the slave trade
And there's all kinds of critiques that come - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:24
And there's all kinds of critiques that come
And that's the kind of thing - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
And that's the kind of thing
This is a notion which is very pervasive - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:08
This is a notion which is very pervasive
Either that there is a, there is something - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Either that there is a, there is something
There's your local story, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:12
There's your local story,
So, the short answer is that we were told a lie - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:22
So, the short answer is that we were told a lie
And, and to monopolize claims on freedom - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
And, and to monopolize claims on freedom
So that Islam and African society - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
So that Islam and African society
And so the way in which we approached - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
And so the way in which we approached
It was polemical, and people refer - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:20
It was polemical, and people refer
Whereas once you start to scratch the surface - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:21
Whereas once you start to scratch the surface
And that he himself had freed any person - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:16
And that he himself had freed any person
So what I was doing is trying to tell a historical story - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:20
So what I was doing is trying to tell a historical story
This revolution in the Senegal River Valley - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:14
This revolution in the Senegal River Valley
Clerics traditionally in this region were people - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:10
Clerics traditionally in this region were people
They taught themselves to do it, because they said, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:11
They taught themselves to do it, because they said,
First the slave trade, - Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 00:27
First the slave trade,