1) Many enslaved Africans brought to America were Muslims, speaking Arabic and maintaining aspects of their Islamic faith and culture secretly under slavery. 2) Figures like Kunte Kante and Ibrahima Abd ar-Rahman were Muslim slaves who worked to educate themselves and others despite the difficulties of slavery. 3) The Muslim faith and traditions of enslaved Africans influenced later music styles like the blues and banjo, and aspects of their culture and food remained, showing the perseverance of their identity over generations of slavery.

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14. Scarf- hijab of Harriet Tubman Popularly known as little Moses of her people, she underwent extreme difficulties in saving over 300 slaves over 19 trips from USA to Canada, known as the Underground Railroad.

24. Music African Muslim slaves influenced later blues both through their musical style and through their instruments, which, in late-18th-century Suriname, included percussion, wind and string devices. Among the latter were a one-string benta (top left), and a Creole-bania (top right), an ancestor of the American banjo. Azan style!

26. The name Bailey, in fact, is a reworking of the name Bilali, which became a popular Muslim name in Africa because one of Islam’s first converts—and the religion’s first muezzin—was a former Abyssinian slave named Bilal.

30. Education One is that of Prince Abdar Rahman, who was born a prince in his homeland of Mali and, because of his aristocratic breeding, intimidated many of the Southern whites who crossed his path. Some of these men became lecturers and toured the country giving speeches about their lives and experiences, and some even made it back to their homelands through diplomatic and business ties.

32. "Imagine yourself as a slave cutting cane sun up to sun down, or picking cotton and still you think of yourself as a scholar, as a religious leader, as a student, and you write," Sylvianne Diouf continued. "When you get paper, you copy the Bible or Quran for yourself. You organize schools to teach your children how to read and write and all that while being enslaved. Doing all this is secret. That is the triumph of the human spirit."