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law student @bostoncollege | aa (l2b2) | islam, african history, philosophy, & finance ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
Boubacar Barry critiquing the European tendency to conflate the Trans-Atlantic slave trade with the Trans-Saharan
The story of Islam in the Americas isn’t just about survival, but about deliberate resistance, cultural memory, and strategic adaptation.
“Most of the largest states in pre-colonial Africa were made up of culturally heterogeneous communities that were products of historical processes rather than ‘bounded tribes’ with fixed homelands.” africanhistoryextra.com/p/state-societ…
As a function of rank bigotry and anti-Muslim animus, the African American museum in DC portrays the precise opposite as being the truth
In 18th-century West Africa, Islam was a powerful counterforce to transatlantic slavery and European commercial influence. Historian Paul Lovejoy notes that Muslim-ruled states like Fuuta Toro systematically withheld captives from Atlantic traders after 1760,—
What the ruler of Fuuta Tooro, Almaami Abd El Qadir Kane (v.1727-1807; r.1775-1806) wrote to Blanchot de Verly, governor of Saint-Louis and a big slaver. Featured in Goree
In 18th-century West Africa, Islam was a powerful counterforce to transatlantic slavery and European commercial influence. Historian Paul Lovejoy notes that Muslim-ruled states like Fuuta Toro systematically withheld captives from Atlantic traders after 1760,—