Do You Know America's First Muslims? — Message International

Message International magazine article on America's first Muslims: Salih Bilali spent most of his life enslaved on St. Simons Island, Georgia, far from his birthplace in Massina (present-day Mali) in the 1770s; kidnapped and sold at about twelve, he worked in the Bahamas until the Couper family bought him; his owner's son characterised him as the most religious man he had ever known and reported his last words as the shahada, 'Allah is God and Mohammed his prophet'.