1st Edition
West African Muslims in Colonial and Antebellum South Carolina
By Jeffry Halverson
Copyright 2026
154 Pages
by
Routledge
154 Pages
by
Routledge
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West African Muslims in Colonial and Antebellum South Carolina is a historical study of the presence of enslaved West African Muslims in colonial and antebellum South Carolina.
This book synthesizes existing material about enslaved West African Muslims and adds new cases, details, and insights that existing studies ofenslaved Muslims in the United States have not explored. No other study of... Read more
Introduction 1. Islam in West Africa 2. Africans in the Americas 3. Colonial South Carolina 4. The State of South Carolina 5. Vestiges of the Past
Biography
Jeffry R. Halverson is Professor of Religious Studies at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina (USA). He is also the author of Islamists of the Maghreb (Routledge, 2017).
