1800s

The earliest known Muslim communities in Muslim America trace back to the early 1800’s led by Bilali Muhammad and Salih Bilal

Sources

Books:

• “Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade,” by Philip Curtin.
• “Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Amongst the Coastal Georgia Negroes GRP.”
• “Servants of Allah,” by Sylviane Diouf
• “African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles,” by Allan Austin
• “Muslims in America: Seven Centuries of History (1312-2000) “Collections and Stories of American Muslims,” by Amir Nashid Ali Muhammad
• “The Wanderer: The Last American Slave Ship and the Conspiracy That Set its Sails,” by Erik Calonous
• “African Presence in the Carolinas & Georgia: Sea Island Roots,” Edited by Mary A. Twining and Keith E. Baird
• “Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect,” by Lorenzo Dow Turner
• “Praying For Sheetrock: A Work of NonFiction,” by Melissa Fay Greene
• “African Presence in the Carolinas & Georgia: Sea Island Roots,” Edited by Mary A. Twining and Keith E. Baird

Links:

• http://slaveryandremembrance.org/people/person/?id=PP036
• https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/african-muslims-in-the-south/five-african-muslims/salih-bilali-bilali-mohammed
• http://www.muslimsinamerica.org/1800-s.html