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Call Number: HV6432 .E54 2006
Publication Date: 2006
Soon after 9/11, an FBI informant made an alarming claim: Osama bin Laden's deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, had visited the town of Lodi, Calif. in the late 1990s and attended a mosque there. Moreover, two Pakistani imams preaching at the mosque came from a conservative Islamic school, or madrassa, linked to the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan. According to McGregor Scott, the U.S. attorney who led the federal anti-terror investigation, this was "an attempt by a group of radical Islamic religious figures to come to this country and ... establish a madrassa to serve as a recruiting ground." However, a deeper look at the evidence creates uncertainty about what kind of threat actually did exist in Lodi and provides a case study of America's response to the threat of domestic terrorism. In "The Enemy Within, " FRONTLINE and New York Times reporter Lowell Bergman examines the Lodi case and interviews FBI and Homeland
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- Oloudah Equiano was born in the Eboe province in Southern Nigeria in c.1745. At age 11, him and his sisters were kidnapped.
- He was sold by a local slave trader and then shipped across the Atlantic, to Barbados and eventually Virginia
- At a slave auction in Virginia, Oloudah was sold to Lieutenant Michael Pascal, a Royal Navy officer. He was renamed Gustavus Vassa, after a Swedish King from the 16th century.
- Equiano travelled the sea with Michael for 8 years and during this time he was taught how to read and write and was baptised.
- He was then taken to Montserrat after being sold to a ship captain in London and then was sold to a merchant names Robert King. Oloudah worked as a deckhand, valet and barber for King and traded on the side, which in three years made Equiano enough money to buy his own freedom. He went on the travel the world for the next 20 years.
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- Bennett, Lerone Jr. (1966) [1962]. Before the Mayflower: A History of the Negro in America, 1619-1966. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.
- Berlin, Ira (1998). Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN . Bancroft Prize for American History, 1999[2]
- —— (2003). Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves. Cambridge, MA: Belkna
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