AHC: Larger Muslim presence in America

Today's challenge boys, girls, strange aliens from alternate dimensions and human killing robots, is to create a larger Muslim presence in either or both South America and North America. Whether it is done simply by Muslims choosing to immigrate to the new world or through a Muslim power attempting to go colonial, your goal is to before 1900 have a larger Muslim presence in the New World, and consequently, state what if any effects this would have on either continent.
 
Today's challenge boys, girls, strange aliens from alternate dimensions and human killing robots, is to create a larger Muslim presence in either or both South America and North America. Whether it is done simply by Muslims choosing to immigrate to the new world or through a Muslim power attempting to go colonial, your goal is to before 1900 have a larger Muslim presence in the New World, and consequently, state what if any effects this would have on either continent.

Male Rising TL
 
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katchen

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The infant United States in the 1790s, beset by economic embargoes in Europe from nations that fear the American Republican example turn to the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States as trading partners. Rather than paying tribute or going to war with Tripoli and Algeirs, the United States negotiates a special arrangement with the Muslim Barbary States. Their ships will be welcome at US ports and the Barbary corsairs may sell their captives who do not get ransom in the US; Africans from over the Sahara Route at slave rates and Europeans at bound servant rates which are somewhat less. The corsairs may also purchase supplies and cotton and tobacco for the return trip and settle in the US and even build mosques since the United States guarantees religious liberty.
This sets the stage for a long and profitable two way trade between the United States, the Ottoman Empire Egypt and Morocco. The slave trade continues disguised as a trade in bound servants even after 1808 until 1860 and Muslim immigration to the United States as well as immigration of Christian and Jewish minorities from Muslim nations remains steady. The United States eventually becomes the protector of Morocco and Tunis and Egypt against French and British imperialism, with Cornelius Vanderbilt building the Suez Canal.
 
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