![]() | Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, 15th Anniversary Edition Subjects: Slaves -- Religious life -- United States -- History; Slaves -- Religious life -- America -- History; Muslims Black -- United States -- History; Muslims Black -- American -- History; African Americans -- History -- To 1863; Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Diouf Sylviane A. : Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author of Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons and Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas--named Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999--both with NYU Press. Her book Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America received the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the 2009 Sulzby Award of the Alabama Historical Association and was a finalist for the 2008 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. She is the editor of Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies and the co-editor of In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience. A recipient of the Rosa Parks Award, the Dr. Betty Shabazz Achievement Award, and the Pen and Brush Achievement Award, Diouf is a Curator at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture of the New York Public Library. |
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