La résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe

Enslaving a free Muslim was unacceptable for Islam. However, many Africans who had been enslaved by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century belonged to ethnic groups who had already been converted to Islam so that in Seville “Jolofes” and “Mandingas” were not an uncommon sight. Actually, they openly...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7ff2e3c1a92d4ac8ba27180a64fdf4982021-12-02T10:27:09ZLa résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.59309https://doaj.org/article/7ff2e3c1a92d4ac8ba27180a64fdf4982010-03-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/59309https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252Enslaving a free Muslim was unacceptable for Islam. However, many Africans who had been enslaved by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century belonged to ethnic groups who had already been converted to Islam so that in Seville “Jolofes” and “Mandingas” were not an uncommon sight. Actually, they openly behaved so as to show that they rebelled against their condition.The same resistance took place with more violence in the New World where the misery of slavery became even worse. As early as the beginning of the sixteenth century the “Jolofes” initiated many serious uprisings which threatened the very existence of the inchoate colonial society. As a result the transfer of muslim slaves to overseas colonies was made illegal by royal writs, wherever they came from. But the slave trade made the enforcement of these rules problematic and over the years the rebellious behavior of “mandingas” came to be considered a manifestation of the Devil, a notion which thrived in literary tradition.Jean-Pierre TardieuCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleKeywords : SlavesMuslimsmythsResistancethe New WorldAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2010)
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topic Keywords : Slaves
Muslims
myths
Resistance
the New World
Anthropology
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Latin America. Spanish America
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Muslims
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the New World
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Jean-Pierre Tardieu
La résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe
description Enslaving a free Muslim was unacceptable for Islam. However, many Africans who had been enslaved by the Portuguese in the fifteenth century belonged to ethnic groups who had already been converted to Islam so that in Seville “Jolofes” and “Mandingas” were not an uncommon sight. Actually, they openly behaved so as to show that they rebelled against their condition.The same resistance took place with more violence in the New World where the misery of slavery became even worse. As early as the beginning of the sixteenth century the “Jolofes” initiated many serious uprisings which threatened the very existence of the inchoate colonial society. As a result the transfer of muslim slaves to overseas colonies was made illegal by royal writs, wherever they came from. But the slave trade made the enforcement of these rules problematic and over the years the rebellious behavior of “mandingas” came to be considered a manifestation of the Devil, a notion which thrived in literary tradition.
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title La résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe
title_short La résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe
title_full La résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe
title_fullStr La résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’Amérique des Habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe
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title_sort la résistance des esclaves musulmans dans l’amérique des habsbourgs : naissance et développement d’un mythe
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