The Harmonic Triangle / Tribe of Ishmael (links ideas log 21 to P121): free mixed community (Black, Native, poor white) with a yearly circuit across Indiana and…

SUMMARYThe Harmonic Triangle / Tribe of Ishmael (links ideas log #21 to P121): free mixed community (Black, Native, poor white) with a yearly circuit across Indiana and Illinois in the 1800s; route towns Mecca IN, Mahomet IL, Morocco IN (real names); Oscar McCulloch, The Tribe of Ishmael (1888) labeled them "degenerate," used to push Indiana's 1907 sterilization law, the first in the US (same eugenics machine as Plecker 1924). Record. Hugo Prosper Leaming (1977): a Muslim-influenced maroon nation whose circuit worked like a hajj, with descendants linked to the Moorish Science Temple = Community Belief (Record that he argued it); Nathaniel Deutsch, Inventing America's Worst Family (2009), disputes it = Disputed. Chain: enslaved Muslims -> Ishmael circuit -> Moorish Science 1913 -> NOI 1930. TO VERIFY: why each town got its name; source of the hand-drawn "Holy Mountain of Harmonics" map.