African Muslims in antebellum America : transatlantic stories and spiritual struggles
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African Muslims in antebellum America : transatlantic stories and spiritual struggles
Routledge, 1997
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Condensation and updating of: African Muslims in antebellum America : a sourcebook. New York : Garland, 1984
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
A condensation and updating of his African Muslims inAntebellum America: A Sourcebook (1984), noted scholar of antebellum black writing and history Dr. Allan D. Austin explores, via portraits, documents, maps, and texts, the lives of 50 sub-Saharan non-peasant Muslim Africans caught in the slave trade between 1730 and 1860. Also includes five maps.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 "
- There Are Good Men in America, but All Are Very Ignorant of Africa"-and Its Muslims
- Chapter 2 Glimpses of Seventy-Five African Muslims in Antebellum North America
- Chapter 3 Job Ben Solomon
- Chapter 4 Abd ar-Rahman and His Two Amazing American Journeys
- Chapter 5 Bilali Mohammed and Salih Bilali
- Chapter 6 Lamine Kebe, Educator
- Chapter 7 Umar ibn Said's Legend(s), Life, and Letters
- Chapter 8 The Transatlantic Trials of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua
- Chapter 9 Mohammed Ali ben Said, or Nicholas Said
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