Slavery in the Americas

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History of Slavery in The Americaas

Slave Revolts and Slave Cooperation

Biographies

Job Ben Solomon Jallo • Ibrahim Abd ar-Rahman • Lamine Kebe • Yarrow Mamout• Kunta Kinte

Areas where African Slaves came from

Senigambia • Ghana • Mali • Guinea • c d • e• f • g • h

Coloninal Legislation on Slavery

a • b • c • d • e f • g• h • i • j

African American Heritage

Customs Roots

African American Journeys

The Middle Passage African American Returns Amistad

African Muslim Tribes

Wolof • Mandinka • Fulani • Yourba • Fulbe

Contents 1 Origins 2 The Muslim Factor 2.1 Muslim Demographics in Africa 3 Legislation 4 Journeys 5 Revolt and Rebellion 5.1 The Amistad Revolt 5.2 The Haitian and Dominican Revolts 5.3 The Bahia Revolts 6 Assimilation 7 See Also 8 References

[edit] Origins

[edit] The Muslim Factor

contempory estimates of the slaves brought to the new world range from 15-20 million. Of those 15-20 million estimates of the number who were Muslim range from 10 -30%. This is based on the recording of the areas and tribes of those who were brought over, and the percentage of those tribes that were Muslim. Transit records, and Plantation records normally recorded either the area or the Tribe.

[edit] Muslim Demographics in Africa

From the various tribes, i.e Fulbe, Fulani, Tukoor, Mandinka, Soninke, Hausa, Taureg, Songhai, Kasonke, Kanuri, Mandara, Wolof, Vai, Nupi, Susa, Ashanti and Yourba, the percentage of Muslims were as follows

• 50% of Yourba,
• 90% of the Hausa'
• 90% of the Mandinka,
• 95% of the Fulani^[1]

[edit] Legislation

Main article: Biblical justification for racial slavery

[edit] Journeys

Main article: The Middle Passage

[edit] Revolt and Rebellion

The enslaved Muslims where prone to uprising and revolt. This threatened the European Colonists hegenomy of the New World and as such they introduced numerous legislation to counter this threat.

• 16^th September 1501 (22^nd Safar 907) King Fernado issued a royal decree to SirNicolas Ovando, forbidding any Muslims to enter the Spanish Colonies. More specifically, the king's decree stressed that the only African slaves that should be allowed into the colonies were those who were not Muslims.^[2]
• 11^th May 1526 (19^th Rajab 932) After the Wolof rebellion in Hispaniola, a Spanish royal decree singled out the Wolof Muslims as being especially difficult to keep enslaved. The royal decree also forbade,the importation of African slaves from the Middle East, slaves from Guinea, and slaves that had been raised with Moors.
• 1531 CE (937 AH) the Spanish decree labeled the Muslim Wolof as being disobedient and rebelious, and the importation of the Wolof, Moriscos and other Muslims to the Americas was once again banned.
• 14^th August 1543 (3^rd Jumada al-Ula 950) another law forbidding muslims slaves in the Americas.
• 16^th July 1550 (20^th Jumada al-Thanni 957) another law forbidding muslim slaves in the Americas.

[edit] The Amistad Revolt

Main article: The Amistad Revolt

[edit] The Haitian and Dominican Revolts

Main article: The Haitian and Dominican Revolts

[edit] The Bahia Revolts

Main article: The Bahia Revolts

• Hispaniola 1522 CE (928 AH) - 1532 CE (938 AH)
• Mexico 1523 CE (929 AH)
• Cuba 1529 CE (935 AH)
• Panama 1550 CE (956 AH) and 1582 CE (989 AH)
• Venuzuela 1550 CE (956 AH)
• Peru 1560 CE (967 AH)
• Ecuador 1599 CE (1007 AH)
• Guatemala 1627 CE (1036 AH)
• Chile 1647 CE (1056 AH)
• Marinique 1650 CE (1059 AH)
• Florida 1830 CE (1245 AH) - 1840 CE (1255 AH)

[edit] Assimilation

[edit] See Also

Islam in the United States

[edit] References

1. ↑ Austin AD (1997), Diouf SA (1998), Lo M (2004), Quick AH (1998)
2. ↑ Franco, Franklin J. Los Negros, Los Mulatos y La Nación Dominicana, page 5.

• Muslims in American History: A forgotten Legacy
• Sylvian Dioufs Slaves of Allah
• D Austin Taylor "Muslims in Antabella America"
• Bahi