The Amistad Revolt

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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

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African American Heritage

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African Muslim Tribes

Wolof • Mandinka • Fulani • Yourba • Fulbe

Contents 1 Background 2 Evidence the Africans where Muslims 3 Further Reading 4 References

[edit] Background

[edit] Evidence the Africans where Muslims

• Richard Madden, who testified on behalf of the Africans in Connecticut on 11^th November 1839 (4^th Ramadhan 1255) Said

He spoke with one of them and repeated in the Arabic language a Mohammedan form of prayer and the words 'Allah Akbar or God is Great were immediately recognized by the negro, and some of the words of the said prayer were repeated after him by the negro. That deponent addressed another negro, standing by the former, in the ordinary terms of oriental salutation "Salaam Aleikoum" or peace to you and the man immediately replied "Aleikoum Salaam" or with you peace [1]

• One of the young men Ba-u (Ba) being a Pulo name , said that hs father was a Marabout^[2]
• Lewis Tapan, the cheif abolitionist wrote in a letter on 9^th September 1839 (29^th Jumada al-Thanni 1255) That he visited the African prisoners in their cells after they had been provided with Western clothing. He noted that :

The three females, two of whom were Mandinka wore calico frocks and had tied the little shawls given them into turbans; Most of the men had been circumcised, according t the report of the physician who examined them; and most of the slaves were Mandinka[3]

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Nearly all Mandinka where Muslim, and according to Sylvian Diouf in her book slaves of Allah only the Muslim women wore turbans.

[edit] Further Reading

law.umkc.edu famous trials

[edit] References

1. ↑ Richard Robert Madden, The island of Cuba' Its resources, progres and prospects (London:Gilpin 1849), 237
2. ↑ Allan Austin, African Muslims in Antebellum America (1984)
3. ↑ Tappan L(1839) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMI_LTR.HTM

• Allan D Austin African Muslims in Antebellum America ISBN 0-41591270-9
• Sylvian Diouf Servants of Allah African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas New York University Press ISBN 0-8147-1905-8
• Jerald F.Dirks Muslims in American History - a Forgotten Legacy ISBN 1-59008-044-0