In the first chapter, titled "Muslims in a Strange Land: American Muslim Slaves in America", Turner describes for the reader the early evolution of Islam among blacks in West Africa. ... North African Muslims helped plant the seeds for West African Islam through their encounters with sub-Saharan Africans by way of a slave trade. ... These separatist feelings would only be fueled later when Arabs began enslaving their fellow Muslims. ... Webb introduced the idea of the "jihad of words" to African-American Muslims. ... African-American Muslims would reference the jihad of words throughout the tw...

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Encyclopedias told me he was an American Muslim who helped build the Nation of Islam in this country who was assassinated. ... Upon entering the religion of Islam Malcom perceived all white skinned peoples to be "the devil." It was on his first pilgrimage to Mecca when a white skinned Muslim helped make his trip to Mecca possible that Malcom X began to change his views of white skinned people. ... Malcom began to study the Nation of Islam and write letters to the American leader of the religion, Elijah Muhammad. ... Muhammad expressed his desire to learn about the Muslim religion and his d...

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The Situation of African-Americans in America In their motherland Africa, black people lived together in tribes with the families staying together in the village and leading a live according to strong morals and rites. Each tribe had developed a culture and often an own language, and the people either prayed to their own Gods or (especially in north and central Africa) followed the teachings of the Koran. But in the eyes of most Europeans, all Africans were ignorant, pagan savages who needed to be introduced to Christianity and Western civilisation. When America was discovered in 1492, Eur...

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