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The Moor's Account
The survivor history forgot finally tells his own story.
GenresHistoricalLiterary
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About The Moor's Account
Laila Lalami imagines the memoir of Mustafa al-Zamori, known as Estebanico, an enslaved Moroccan who joins a Spanish expedition to Florida and becomes one of its few survivors. His journey across America recasts conquest, identity, storytelling, and survival from the viewpoint history silenced.
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Content warnings
- slavery
- colonisation
- racism
- violence
- death
- animal death
- cannibalism
- genocide
- sexual violence
