Some African Muslims enslaved in America were themselves slave traders first

Evidence

By the age of 30 years, he had married twice and had four children. Hyuba, like many in Africa, was himself a slave trader. In 1730, on a journey to a port along the Gambia River where he hoped to sell two slaves, Hyuba was abducted and enslaved. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 356

Categorization

• CANDY: A striking, little-known irony: the enslaved Muslim scholar was himself a slaver before his own abduction.