... women into a downward spiral just like Toomer's character Karintha, showing how the remains of slavery need to be understood in terms of its intersectionality, notable by race and by gender. Slavery is the reason why within Cane most of the main narratives are that of women's lives. Toomer replicates the motifs found within the black community as black women were forced to become the centre ... of families during the slave trade. The female voice is used as a way to vocalize stories, as the African-American community viewed women as the centre of heritage and story telling. Patterson st...

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... part two. In the first chapter, titled "Muslims in a Strange Land: American Muslim Slaves in America", Turner describes for the reader the early evolution of Islam among blacks in West Africa. He also describes how that same brand of "old Islam" would follow African Slaves across the Atlantic to the shores of North America. Turner focuses on how Islam spread to West Africa, and how it ... was adapted and changed by the natives. North African Muslims helped plant the seeds for West African Islam through their encounters with sub-Saharan Africans by way ... the Moorish Science Temple. Th...

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