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From https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/01/new-online-rare-autobiography-in-arabic-by-enslaved-american/

Omar Ibn Said was an educated, well-do-do man living between the two rivers of Senegal and Gambia when he was captured and taken to the United States as a slave. His short autobiography, written in Arabic, is now digitized and available at the Library of Congress. 

Learn more about this primary document and about Ibn Said's life at https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2019/01/new-online-rare-autobiography-in-arabic-by-enslaved-american/ and at http://www.openculture.com/2019/01/the-only-surviving-text-written-in-arabic-by-an-american-slave-has-been-digitized.html.

The digitized collection is available at https://www.loc.gov/collections/omar-ibn-said-collection/about-this-collection/?loclr=blogloc