Diouf, Sylviane A.

Sylviane A. Diouf is an award-winning historian of the African Diaspora. She is the author ofSlavery s Exiles: The Story of the American MaroonsandServants of Allah: African Muslims Enslaved in the Americas, both with NYU Press. The fifteenth anniversary edition of Servants of Allah named Choice Outstanding Academic Book in 1999 will be released in October 2013. Her bookDreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to Americareceived the 2007 Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical Association, the 2009 Sulzby Award of the Alabama Histori...