How Muslims Influenced Thomas Jefferson and America’s Founders

Explore how two books, a translated copy of the Qur’an owned by President Jefferson and an autobiography by enslaved Muslim Omar Ibn Said, reflect the theory and practice of freedom for Muslims in the United States in these videos excerpted from How Muslims Influenced Thomas Jefferson and America’s Founders | AMERICAN MUSLIMS: A HISTORY REVEALED. While the Founders professed that liberty was a right, their actions related to enslaved Muslims reveal a more complicated reality.