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10/06/2004:

"Lecture describes African Muslim role in New World"

By Elise von Dohlen

Prominent African-American Muslim Imam Zaid Shakir spoke on Black Muslim uprisings during the colonization of the New World over a live video feed from the Zaytuna Institute in California on Sunday night.

Muslim African slaves were instrumental in many slave revolts during the first years of colonization, leading to a ban on the importation of Muslim slaves in 1526, Shakir said.

But before the ban took effect, many of these African Muslims rebelled on Christopher Columbus' son's plantation in 1522, starting the first slave uprising. This revolt precipitated many more, including the rebellion which ultimately led to Haitian independence, Shakir said.

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