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04828aam a2200613 i 4500 001 A564C454D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 003 SILO 005 20200806010102 008 191230s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019036456 020 $a 0190844477 020 $a 9780190844479 035 $a (OCoLC)1135092497 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a E445.K5 $b E56 2020 082 00 $a 306.3/6209769 $2 23 100 1 $a Einboden, Jeffrey, $e author. 245 10 $a Jefferson's Muslim fugitives : $b the lost story of enslaved Africans, their Arabic letters, and an American president / $c Jeffrey Einboden. 246 30 $a Lost story of enslaved Africans, their Arabic letters, and an American president 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a xv, 330 pages ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a "A Matter of Momentous Importance" -- "Beyond Oure Expressing" -- "The Original Treaty in Arabic" -- "Written in fair Arabic Characters" -- "I take Refuge with the Lord of Daybreak" -- "His name is 'Usman" -- "Combinations of Letters" -- "Go to Mecca; and God will Render you Victorious" -- "Wr s Unavdble" -- "Mr Jefferson is in Reality a Musselman" -- "The Prayer of the Poorest Slave of God" -- "The Runners" -- "Conquest is Close" -- "A Word of any Language" -- "Seven of the Arab Dialects" -- "Humanity certainly Pleads Loud" -- "Supposed to be Spys" -- "His Mountain is made a sort of Mecca" -- "A Sect by Myself" -- "Slave of the Most Merciful" -- "Their Eulogy will be Uttered in other Languages" -- "A Barely Discernible Horizon." 520 $a "On October 3, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was contacted by an unknown traveler from the American frontier, who urgently requested a private "interview" with the President, promising to disclose "a matter of momentous importance". By the next day, Jefferson held in his hands two astonishing manuscripts whose history has been lost for over two centuries. Authored by Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky, these documents delivered to the President in 1807 were penned by literate African slaves, and written entirely in Arabic. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives reveals the untold story of two escaped West Africans in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Recounting a quest for emancipation that crosses borders of race, region and religion, Jeffrey Einboden unearths Arabic manuscripts that circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, including a document from 1780s Georgia identified as the earliest surviving example of Muslim slave authorship in the newly-formed United States. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with Islam and captivity, Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives tracks the ascent of Arabic slave writings to the highest halls of U.S. power, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten."-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Jefferson, Thomas, $d 1743-1826 $x Correspondence. 600 10 $a Jefferson, Thomas, $d 1743-1826 $x Friends and associates. 600 10 $a Jefferson, Thomas, $d 1743-1826 $x Relations with African Americans. 600 10 $a Nash, Ira P., $d 1774-1844 $x Correspondence. 600 17 $a Jefferson, Thomas, $d 1743-1826. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040754 650 0 $a Fugitive slaves $z Kentucky $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Muslims $z Kentucky $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Slaves' writings, American. 650 0 $a African American Muslims $z Kentucky $x History. 650 0 $a Slavery $x History $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a African American Muslims. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00798985 650 7 $a Friendship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935174 650 7 $a Fugitive slaves. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00935940 650 7 $a Letters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00996779 650 7 $a Muslims. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01031029 650 7 $a Relations with African Americans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01354226 650 7 $a Slavery $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120480 650 7 $a Slaves' writings, American. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01120585 651 7 $a Kentucky. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204494 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Einboden, Jeffrey, $t Jefferson's Muslim fugitives $d New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020] $z 9780190844486 $w (DLC) 2019036457 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231219012933.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023135.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A564C454D7AA11EAACEF483997128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search