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“I also know that Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” AS IN SLAVERY????? "I mean, we know that Muslims were the folks who captured the slaves sent to America, largely out of Africa. … The Muslims did the slave hunting and the slave trading, et cetera. The first SLAVES came to America as a result of the Muslims capturing them and sending them to the Dutch traders.” Barton said that beyond their heavy involvement in the slave trade, America was at war with the Barbary pirates shortly after the founding of the country, but those were “the two biggest contributions.” AMERICAN Historian David Barton