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Enslaved African Muslims in the Americas

2024· reference-entry· en· W4404509466 on OpenAlexaffabout
Bruno R. Véras, Mariam Elzeiny

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford Research Encyclopedia of African History · 2024
Typereference-entry
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHispanic-African Historical Relations
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGeographyGenealogyAncient historyHistory

Abstract

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Abstract Throughout the slave trade era, wars and raids in the hinterlands of West Africa brought captives into different ports of the Atlantic coast, many of whom were Muslims. Various political and social factors in Africa influenced the nature of the transatlantic slave trade, including the identities of those involved in exporting enslaved Muslims, the number of people transported, their ethnic origins, and the colonies and countries to which they were shipped. These dynamics shaped the trade’s complexity across different regions. Following the literary developments in Europe, the collection of individual histories of slavery began in North America in the first decades of the 18th century. Abolitionist biographical accounts were written about the enslaved (overwhelmingly about male individuals) as well as autobiographies in Arabic and English produced by freed Muslim Africans in Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, as well as Québec and Canada West (present-day Ontario). In the Caribbean, Arabic and Hausa-Ajami manuscripts were produced both on the islands and on the shores of Central America. Freed and enslaved Muslim Africans in Brazil, particularly those from Central Sudan, created long-standing and rebellious communities. The Malê Uprising of 1835 was a cornerstone event for slave resistance and marked the strengthening of the bonds of a transnational community of Muslim Africans in different parts of Brazil that had an enduring impact until the early 20th century. Community practices as well as religious and cultural pluralisms marked the histories of these diverse diasporas.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.253
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0030.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.004
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.099
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.215 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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