ABSTRACT

A condensation and updating of his African Muslims in Antebellum 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.

chapter 3|12 pages

Job Ben Solomon

African Nobleman and a Father of African American Literature

chapter 5|29 pages

Bilali Mohammed and Salih Bilali

Almaamys on Georgia's Sapelo and St. Simon's Islands

chapter 6|12 pages

Lamine Kebe, Educator

chapter 9|14 pages

Mohammed Ali ben Said, or Nicholas Said

His Travels on Five Continents