[David25891]

I’m pretty sure that no where near the majority of black Africans were Muslim. The vast majority were Animist – a polytheistic system in which living (and some non-living) things are endowed with sacredness, deserving of worship, responsible for good and evil occurrences, etc. I am also pretty sure that Muslim black Africans were bestowed that religion, by inheritance or force by Arab slave traders. (See Henry Louis Gates’ PBS program on Africa for more.) This same method is how American blacks became predominately Christian.

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