Shared Islam enabled enslaved West Africans to organize revolts in the Americas

Evidence

Despite having different languages and customs, their common religion united them in these far-off lands and in some cases allowed them to mobilize revolts against their Spanish slave owners. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 570

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The first significant US Muslim population arrived via the slave trade; African Muslim slaves preserved Islam until Protestant abolitionism pulled them into Christianity