Sylviane A Diouf: 4 books

Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought...

Diouf bu kitabı yazmasaydı; savaşlar esnasında esir düşüp Amerika'ya satılan; kültürlü, eğitimli, birkaç dile hakim ve hatta bu yüzden "beyaz" kabul edilen; "blues"u şekillendiren; İslam'ı her hal ve şartta yaşamaya kararlı olan; Amerika'nın en büyük köle...

Over more than two centuries men, women, and children escaped from slavery to make the Southern wilderness their home. They hid in the mountains of Virginia and the low swamps of South Carolina; they stayed in the neighborhood or paddled their way to secluded places; they buried themselves underground...

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States...