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(ISLAM.) GIBBON, EDWARD. The Life of Mahomet. With Sketches of the reigns of Abubeker, Omar, Othman and Ali. 171 pages; printer's flaw at pages 167-170 sheets short close to bottom, not affecting the text. 12mo, contemporary full tree calf with red morocco spine label, and three gilt rules. A very handsome copy. Leominster: by Samuel Wood for John Whiting of Lancaster, 1805
first american edition of this biography of the prophet mohamed extracted from Edward Gibbon's massive 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.' While not common to the plantation, there were a number of known instances of Islam among slaves in the deep South. See Allan D. Austin's African Muslims in Ante-Bellum America (Routledge, 1997).
