> [1]
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> >Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:15:38 +0100
> >From: curtinpd@jhu.edu (Philip Curtin)
>
> The question has been asked: is it possible that a majority of the slaves
> brought to North America in the era of the slave trade were Muslim? There
> is, of course, very little direct evidence, and it is true that some Muslim
> slaves were identified as such after their arrival. They came mainly from
> Senegambia, a few from the hinterland of Sierra Leone and a few from the
> hinterland of the Gold Coast.
>
> But at that period, the majority of the population was not Muslim in any of
> these regions. In West central Africa and the Bight of Biafra (which
> together furnished a little over half of the slaves entering the trade as a
> whole) Islam was completely unknown at that time.
>
> If I were asked to guess, based on the recent religious situation in the
> regions that furnished slaves to the trade, I would have to conclude that
> it is extremely unlikely that more than 5 percent of slaves arriving in
> North America were Muslim.
>
>
> [2]
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> >Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 14:05:44 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: "Sweet, Timothy R" <TSWEET@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU>
>
> I don't know about a "majority" but a few instances are treated in Ronald
> Judy's *(Dis)Forming the American Canon: African-Arabic Slave
> Narratives and the Vernacular* (Minnesota 1993).
>
>
> [3]
>
> >Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 16:22:29 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: Kevin Lewis <KELEWIS@UNIVSCVM.CSD.SCAROLINA.EDU>
>
> Charles Joiner, *Down By the Riverside*?
>
> But I do not believe Joiner has ever or would ever claim that a majority
> of Africans brought over into bondage were Muslim.