Sylviane A Diouf
Biographic Data
| ID | 180626 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sylviane A Diouf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sylviane A |
| FAMILY NAME | Diouf |
| SIGNATURE | DIOUF S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Public Library |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities in Africa and the African diaspora: A review and analysis of coloniality
The movement to decolonize global health challenges clinicians and researchers of sub-disciplines, like global neurosurgery, to redefine their field. As an era of racial reckoning recentres the colonial roots of modern health disparities, reviewing the historical determinants of these disparities can constructively inform decolonization. This article presents a review and analysis of the historical determinants of neurosurgical inequities as unde…
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreak…
Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Journal Article Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Get access Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: New York University Press, 2014. x, 393 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 552–553, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav448 Published: 01 September 2015
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Journal Article William Clair. The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: BlueBridge. 2006. Pp. 282. $24.95 Get access William Clair. The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: BlueBridge. 2006. Pp. 282. $24.95. Sylviane A. Diouf Sylviane A. Diouf Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Search for other works b…
West African Origins
Eighteen-Sixty Was A Good Year to buy captives in Ouidah. The previous three years had been a boon for slave dealing in Dahomey. Such activity had not been seen for a long time, be- cause, since the early 1850s, when it got involved in the legitimate commerce in palm oil, the kingdom had reduced its slave-trading activities. King Ghezo had been firmly encouraged down this new path by Great Britain, and, parallel to diplomatic exhortation, London …
An Essay on Sources
Ouidah
The Clotilda Weighed Anchor a mile and a half from shore at Ouidah on May 15. At 4 P.M., a man in a canoe came alongside the ship and asked what the captain’s business was. The American responded that he wanted “to exchange commodities” and wished to see the “prince and officials.” He was ready to go ashore but the sea was rolling “at a fearful height.” A large pirogue, sixty feet long, manned by twenty rowers who made a game of the high waves, t…
African Town
Once They Realized That Emigration was not in the foreseeable future and that a second generation was growing up in America, the Africans put together another plan. The first priority, they determined, was to give a formal structure to the community. From the days in the barracoon, on the Clotilda, and in the canebrakes, they had made their decisions as best they could, probably by consensus. But since they were going to stay in Mobile they decid…
Mobile and the Slave Trades
It The Time Of The Young Africans’ Arrival, Mobile, their future home, was Cotton City. And it is cotton that brought them there in a tale of two slave trades, one over land, and the other over sea. A tale of migrations, it is the story of white men attracted by fabled economic opportunities; and of black men and women transported against their will. Blacks and whites were two sides of the same story, one group uprooted and exploited so that the …
Slavery
Their Very Existence Disregarded by President James Buchanan, the men, women, and children of the Clotilda were hardly more acknowledged by their owners. They were not people with life stories, families, and personalities, but generic “slaves” who were expected to shed their identity and respond only to their assigned status, starting with new names. When they had first arrived and did not know what was going to happen, the shipmates had decided …
Epilogue
Subject History of the Americas African History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Arrival in Mobile
The Clotilda Entered The Mississippi Sound on Sunday, July 8, 1860. The crew anchored off Point-of-Pines in Grand Bay. There were a few things for the captain to do: according to his account, William Foster had to meet Timothy Meaher, who would have the crew’s pay; tug the Clotilda up the Alabama River; and lastly, go to the discreet spot already selected to land the Africans. Foster knew exactly what to do because he and Timothy Meaher had put t…
Known Africans Deported to Mobile on the Clotilda
On A January Night In 2002, a truck backed up to a statue in front of Union Missionary Baptist Church, north of Mobile, Alabama. One or two people got out, cut through parts of the heavy bronze bust, ripped it from its brick base, and disappeared with their loot. The theft shocked and angered the congregation of pastor A. J. Crawford, Sr. They had just celebrated the New Year and were preparing to commemorate, the following month, the 130th anniv…
Going Back Home
The Year 1901 Marked The Beginning of a new era in Alabama, one that for African Americans looked ominously like Southern whites’ idea of “the good old days” of William Foster and Timothy Meaher’s fame. On April 23, 70,300 men voted for and 45,500 against a convention to draft a new constitution that, among other reactionary items, would disenfranchise the overwhelming majority of blacks and many poor whites. The Democratic Campaign Committee had…
Dedication
Appendix
Between Two Worlds
As The Last Decade of the nineteenth century opened, King Glèlè died after a reign of more than forty years. Wherever they were, in Mobile, Havana, or Rio, the people he had sold away would have rejoiced had they known. Some of the deportees to Brazil had been freed only a year before in 1888. The men and women of African Town who had been taken from his barracoon in Ouidah were now in their forties and fifties, parents and grandparents of two ge…
Freedom
He Roads Heading South to Mobile were crowded, packed with people with baskets on their heads; barefoot children in tattered shirttails, with bundles tied to their backs; women with babies on their hips; families pushing rickety and wobbly old carts, sleeping in ditches, cooking, eating, resting on the side of the road. Four million people had been freed, more than 10 percent of them in Alabama, and they were on the move. Some were gone the minut…
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
This riveting books tells the fascinating story of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring African slaves to America, the shameful antecedents to the incident and the unusual and inspiring aftermath. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the book brings to light a little-known yet vitally important element to this troubled aspect of US history
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies
The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends
IN JUNE 1829 A CARAVAN LEFT TIMBO in Futa Jallon and headed south toward Monrovia, Liberia, carrying $6,000 to $7,000 in gold to be remitted to Ibrahima abd al-Rahman Barry, a son of the late almamy Ibrahima Sori Mawdo. The aging man had returned to Liberia two months earlier, after forty years of bondage in Mississippi. Upon arrival, he had sent word to his wealthy and influential family to help him redeem his five children and eight grandchildr…
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries. This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of sl…
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Journal Article Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-1904-X. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8147-1905-8.) Get access Andrew F. Clark Andrew F. Clark University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Mar…
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Journal Article Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Get access Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: New York University Press, 2014. x, 393 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 552–553, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav448 Published: 01 September 2015
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Illuminates how African Muslims drew on Islam while enslaved, and how their faith ultimately played a role in the African Disapora Servants of Allah presents a history of African Muslims, following them from West Africa to the Americas. Although many assume that what Muslim faith they brought with them to the Americas was quickly absorbed into the new Christian milieu, as Sylviane A. Diouf demonstrates in this meticulously-researched, groundbreak…
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries. This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of sl…
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
This riveting books tells the fascinating story of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring African slaves to America, the shameful antecedents to the incident and the unusual and inspiring aftermath. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the book brings to light a little-known yet vitally important element to this troubled aspect of US history
Sadaqa Among African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
SADAQA AMONG AFRICAN MUSLIMS ENSLAVED IN THE AMERICAS SYLVIANE A. DIOUF SYLVIANE A. DIOUF New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/10.1.22 Published: 01 January 1999
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Sadaqa Among African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
SADAQA AMONG AFRICAN MUSLIMS ENSLAVED IN THE AMERICAS SYLVIANE A. DIOUF SYLVIANE A. DIOUF New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 22–32, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/10.1.22 Published: 01 January 1999
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Journal Article Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas. By Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: New York University Press, 1998. x, 254 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8147-1904-X. Paper, $18.50, ISBN 0-8147-1905-8.) Get access Andrew F. Clark Andrew F. Clark University of North Carolina, Wilmington, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 4, Mar…
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Servants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas
Servants of Allah is an important contribution to history of Islam in America. In particular, Sylviane Diouf focuses on the peculiar institution of American slavery, and shows how distinct this practice was in comparison to other experiences of slavery. Some of her descriptions of American slavery were painfully graphic. Her command of historical details is precise and her use of these details is powerful. Diouf brought things to life for me that…
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies
This collection of thirteen case studies by international scholars examines the strategies whole societies adopted in opposition to slavery over a period of five centuries. This is the first book to explore in a systematic manner the strategies used by Africans to protect and defend themselves and their communities from the onslaught of the Atlantic slave trade and how they assaulted it. It concludes with a reflective epilogue on the memory of sl…
Fighting the Slave Trade: West African Strategies
The Last Resort: Redeeming Family and Friends
IN JUNE 1829 A CARAVAN LEFT TIMBO in Futa Jallon and headed south toward Monrovia, Liberia, carrying $6,000 to $7,000 in gold to be remitted to Ibrahima abd al-Rahman Barry, a son of the late almamy Ibrahima Sori Mawdo. The aging man had returned to Liberia two months earlier, after forty years of bondage in Mississippi. Upon arrival, he had sent word to his wealthy and influential family to help him redeem his five children and eight grandchildr…
West African Origins
Eighteen-Sixty Was A Good Year to buy captives in Ouidah. The previous three years had been a boon for slave dealing in Dahomey. Such activity had not been seen for a long time, be- cause, since the early 1850s, when it got involved in the legitimate commerce in palm oil, the kingdom had reduced its slave-trading activities. King Ghezo had been firmly encouraged down this new path by Great Britain, and, parallel to diplomatic exhortation, London …
An Essay on Sources
Ouidah
The Clotilda Weighed Anchor a mile and a half from shore at Ouidah on May 15. At 4 P.M., a man in a canoe came alongside the ship and asked what the captain’s business was. The American responded that he wanted “to exchange commodities” and wished to see the “prince and officials.” He was ready to go ashore but the sea was rolling “at a fearful height.” A large pirogue, sixty feet long, manned by twenty rowers who made a game of the high waves, t…
African Town
Once They Realized That Emigration was not in the foreseeable future and that a second generation was growing up in America, the Africans put together another plan. The first priority, they determined, was to give a formal structure to the community. From the days in the barracoon, on the Clotilda, and in the canebrakes, they had made their decisions as best they could, probably by consensus. But since they were going to stay in Mobile they decid…
Mobile and the Slave Trades
It The Time Of The Young Africans’ Arrival, Mobile, their future home, was Cotton City. And it is cotton that brought them there in a tale of two slave trades, one over land, and the other over sea. A tale of migrations, it is the story of white men attracted by fabled economic opportunities; and of black men and women transported against their will. Blacks and whites were two sides of the same story, one group uprooted and exploited so that the …
Slavery
Their Very Existence Disregarded by President James Buchanan, the men, women, and children of the Clotilda were hardly more acknowledged by their owners. They were not people with life stories, families, and personalities, but generic “slaves” who were expected to shed their identity and respond only to their assigned status, starting with new names. When they had first arrived and did not know what was going to happen, the shipmates had decided …
Epilogue
Subject History of the Americas African History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Arrival in Mobile
The Clotilda Entered The Mississippi Sound on Sunday, July 8, 1860. The crew anchored off Point-of-Pines in Grand Bay. There were a few things for the captain to do: according to his account, William Foster had to meet Timothy Meaher, who would have the crew’s pay; tug the Clotilda up the Alabama River; and lastly, go to the discreet spot already selected to land the Africans. Foster knew exactly what to do because he and Timothy Meaher had put t…
Known Africans Deported to Mobile on the Clotilda
On A January Night In 2002, a truck backed up to a statue in front of Union Missionary Baptist Church, north of Mobile, Alabama. One or two people got out, cut through parts of the heavy bronze bust, ripped it from its brick base, and disappeared with their loot. The theft shocked and angered the congregation of pastor A. J. Crawford, Sr. They had just celebrated the New Year and were preparing to commemorate, the following month, the 130th anniv…
Going Back Home
The Year 1901 Marked The Beginning of a new era in Alabama, one that for African Americans looked ominously like Southern whites’ idea of “the good old days” of William Foster and Timothy Meaher’s fame. On April 23, 70,300 men voted for and 45,500 against a convention to draft a new constitution that, among other reactionary items, would disenfranchise the overwhelming majority of blacks and many poor whites. The Democratic Campaign Committee had…
Dedication
Appendix
Between Two Worlds
As The Last Decade of the nineteenth century opened, King Glèlè died after a reign of more than forty years. Wherever they were, in Mobile, Havana, or Rio, the people he had sold away would have rejoiced had they known. Some of the deportees to Brazil had been freed only a year before in 1888. The men and women of African Town who had been taken from his barracoon in Ouidah were now in their forties and fifties, parents and grandparents of two ge…
Freedom
He Roads Heading South to Mobile were crowded, packed with people with baskets on their heads; barefoot children in tattered shirttails, with bundles tied to their backs; women with babies on their hips; families pushing rickety and wobbly old carts, sleeping in ditches, cooking, eating, resting on the side of the road. Four million people had been freed, more than 10 percent of them in Alabama, and they were on the move. Some were gone the minut…
Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America
This riveting books tells the fascinating story of the Clotilda, the last ship to bring African slaves to America, the shameful antecedents to the incident and the unusual and inspiring aftermath. Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the book brings to light a little-known yet vitally important element to this troubled aspect of US history
The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Journal Article William Clair. The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: BlueBridge. 2006. Pp. 282. $24.95 Get access William Clair. The Door of No Return: The History of Cape Coast Castle and the Atlantic Slave Trade. New York: BlueBridge. 2006. Pp. 282. $24.95. Sylviane A. Diouf Sylviane A. Diouf Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library Search for other works b…
Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons
Journal Article Slavery's Exiles: The Story of the American Maroons Get access Sylviane A. Diouf. (New York: New York University Press, 2014. x, 393 pp. $29.95.) Journal of American History, Volume 102, Issue 2, September 2015, Pages 552–553, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jav448 Published: 01 September 2015
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