Download or read book Muslim Slaves in the Chesapeake 1634 To 1865 written by Steven J. Vicchio and published by Wisdom Editions. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the product of ten years of study. It is about the phenomenon of Muslim Slaves in the Chesapeake Bay Region from 1634 until 1865. The book examines fifty-five Muslim slaves in Maryland and another fifty-one in Virginia. It also looks at slave forts and prisons in Africa, the Middle Passage-the route by which West African slaves came to America-slave auction and slave dealers in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia and many other issues related to American slavery in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.