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Imagine being erased so thoroughly that history forgets you ever existed. Now imagine telling your own story anyway — raw, unfiltered, and from the margins. That’s what Laila Lalami does in The Moor’s Account, flipping the script on colonial conquest by handing the mic to a slave who survived one of the deadliest expeditions into the New World.
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History loves to toss around names like conquistadors and explorers as if they were superheroes. But what about the ones who actually lived through the mess—the ones whose stories got buried under centuries of ‘great man’ narratives? Enter Estebanico, a Moroccan slave whose survival story is less about glory and more about grit, identity, and the brutal reality of colonial ambition.
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