For more than 300 years Muslims have influenced the story of the US – from the ‘founding fathers’ to blues music today.
![Omar ibn Said, born in Senegal in 1770, held onto Islamic practices while enslaved for decades in the US [Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Screen-Shot-2020-11-15-at-1.26.53-PM.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Sylviane A Diouf
Dr Sylviane A Diouf, an award-winning historian, is the author of Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. She is a Visiting Schol... ar at the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University.
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