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Students will evaluate the website Enslaved and Freed African Muslims: Spiritual Wayfarers in the South and Low country and learn the impact of religion in the Black experience.

Students will will evaluate the Enslaved and Freed African Muslims: Spiritual Wayfarers in the South and Low country.

https://ldhi.library.cofc.edu/exhibits/show/african-muslims-in-the-south

1. What impact did Islam and African spiritual systems have on the Black religionist experience?
2. How did this assignment change your understanding of the Black church or religion in early colonial society?
3. What impact did the early American Islamic experience have on the culture of the Carolina Lowcountry?
4. Use the section Five African Muslims: Their Experiences in the American South, name some of the experiences of one of the five African Muslims. What impact did they have on African American culture.
5. What impact did African religion culture play in the development of the Black religionist experience?