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Jefferson's Muslim fugitives : the lost story of enslaved Africans, their Arabic letters, and an American president
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Jefferson's Muslim fugitives : the lost story of enslaved Africans, their Arabic letters, and an American president / Jeffrey Einboden.
ISBN
9780190063917 (ebook) :
Publication
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Also issued in print: 2020.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 24, 2020).
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Summary
On October 4, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was handed documents written entirely in Arabic, penned by two African Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky. 'Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives' recounts the untold story of escaped West African slaves in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jeffrey Einboden uncovers the lost Muslim manuscripts which circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.
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Oxford scholarship online.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 25, 2020
Series
Oxford scholarship online
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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