Religion and American Slavery

Lesson II. Enslaved African Muslims

Bibliography

Primary Sources

“Abdul Rahman: 1762 – 1829.” Slavery and Remembrance. Colonial Williamsburg. Accessed June 2022. https://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP005

Bluett, Thomas. Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa; Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland; and Afterwards Being Brought to England, was Set Free and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734. London: Printed for Richard Ford, at the Angel in the Poultry, over against Compter, 1734.University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999. https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bluett/bluett.html

Hoare, William, “Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, called Job ben Solomon,” oil on canvas, 1733, National Portrait Gallery, London. 

Illman, Thomas, “Abduhl Rahhahman.” Stipple engraving, 1828. Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2013645555/

Peale, Charles Wilson, “Portrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammas Yaro),” oil on canvas, 1819, Philadelphia Museum of Art. https://www.philamuseum.org/doc_downloads/education/object_resources/319114.pdf

Siad, Omar Ibn. A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said. 1831. Translated from Arabic. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2011. 

Unknown Photographer, “Half Length Formal Portrait of an Elderly Black Man Seated Wearing Headwrap, suit; Left Elbow Rests in Newel, Cane in Right Hand,” Ambrotype Photograph, 1850, Yale – Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2002060

 

Secondary Sources

Cooper, Melissa L. Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017. 

Gomez, Michael A. Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.” Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.  

Haddad, Yvonne Y. and Jane I. Smith. The Oxford Handbook of American Islam. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.  

Helwig, Nzingha. “Sapelo Island.” Georgia Historical Society, 2021. Accessed June 2022. https://georgiahistory.com/education-outreach/historical-markers/hidden-histories/sapelo-island-2/

Johnston, James H. From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.  

Lydon, Ghislaine. African Economic History. University of Wisconsin Press, No. 33, pp. 117-148 (2005).  

Martin, B. G., “Sapelo Island’s Arabic Document: The “Belali Diary” in Context,” The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Vol. 78, No. 3 (Fall 1994), pp. 589-601. 

Mohamed, Sadia. “Kunhi Kalthappam/Fried Rice Cakes (Gluten Free Dish),” Savory and Sweet Food, 2020. Accessed June 2022.  https://www.savoryandsweetfood.com/2020/02/03/kunhi-kalthappam-fried-rice-cakes-gluten-free-dish/

Muelder, Owen W. Theodore Dwight Weld and the American Anti-Slavery Society. Jefferson, North Carolina, London: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2011.  

National Humanities Center, “Oh ye Americans”: The Autobiography of Omar ibn Said,” The Making of African American Identity: Vol. 1, 1500-1865. Accessed June 2022. http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/text3/religionomaribnsaid.pdf

Turner, Richard Brent. Islam in the African-American Experience. Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997.  

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