AH Challenge: Islamic South Carolina



Anyway, while studying various flags, I came across this beauty from the American State of South Carolina. Instantly, I noticed (Or at least preceived) that the flag had a Middle Eastern Flavor: Cresent Moon, Plam Tree, etc.

Finally, I started to wonder what it would take for a political Entity (Of any type) called South Carolina to have a Muslim-Majority Population.
I figured something involving African-Muslim Slaves, but that seems too easy.

Now your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to create a Muslim-Majority South Carolina. The only restrictions are that the POD has to be between 1730 & 1970, and TTL's version of South Carolina must cover at least the same territory as current OTL South Carolina.

Have Fun.:p
 
Hmmm, well perhaps instead of the slave trade focusing mostly on africa some entrapanuer decides to tap the arab slave market and sets up slaving ships off the coast of Oman and Yemen?

Perhaps it becomes very attractive, maybe Europeans get a bloody nose for every trade settlement they have in africa just by human wave tactics early on?

Thats pretty much all I can think of unless you have Muslims discover america.
 

stalkere

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Doesn't have to be "Muslims Discover America" - if by that, you mean replace Columbus.

But - AFAIK John Smith and Miles Standish had experiences with the Turks and Moors. There was more than a few Moorish sailors in the early days of exploration.

How about this? - A Moor comes to America in the early 1600s, get's a look around, and makes a deal to supply slaves to the colonies. He opens a trading house, settles, brings over relatives. The Puritans up north are going to be outraged, the more casual southerners are going to shrug and let it go, particularly if the Moors can get them slaves at a better price than the Dutch.

At that point in history, the Moors seem a bit more cosmopolitan than the Europeans...and the Carolinas are going to look pretty good to somebody from the South side of the Med. If they can avoid the religious conflicts of the Old World, maybe the US get's started with a large Muslim Minority...could butterfly into in massively different world than OTL.


"Many a noble house was founded by a soldier with a strong right arm" - Louis Lamour, attributed to an Arab Proverb.
 
Most African slaves remain Muslim and in the 19th Century a charsimatic imam rises and many other slaves also convert to Islam. In TTL the Great Migration is mainly poor whites moving to the North and thus South Carolina is majority Muslim.
 
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