Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives —— The Lost Story of Enslaved Africans, their Arabic Letters, and an American President

----- 杰斐逊的穆斯林逃犯：被奴役非洲人的失落故事，他们的阿拉伯字母，还有一位美国总统

ISBN: 9780190844479 出版年：2020 页码：353 Einboden, Jeffrey Oxford University Press

On October 4, 1807, Thomas Jefferson was handed documents written entirely in Arabic, penned by two African Muslims fleeing captivity in rural Kentucky. Jefferson's Muslim Fugitives recounts the untold story of escaped West African slaves in the American heartland whose Arabic writings reached a sitting U.S. President, prompting him to intervene on their behalf. Revealing Jefferson's lifelong entanglements with slavery and Islam, Jeffrey Einboden uncovers the lost Muslim manuscripts which circulated among Jefferson and his prominent peers, while questioning why such vital legacies from the American past have been entirely forgotten.