Princes Journey

Abdul Rahman was capture when he was leading troops and they were ambushed and put on a slave boat. Prior to his capture he was a young prince with a young son and wife and now he was on his way from his royal life of leadership and luxury to America where he would be spit on and worked to death. Abdul got on the boat and it was a fearful trip so many africans were crammed in the bottom of the boat with awful conditions. They slept on wooden boards coming out of the side of the ship and had to sleep completely straight on their back with no room to move because they shared the boar with other soon to be slaves. They didn’t get fed much or given water. This is when princes confusion cleared and his worst nightmare came true.

 Not in Futa Jallon Anymore

Rahman arrived in Nachez,Mississippi and was bought by Thomas Foster who was already a slave owner from South Carolina and was trying to build his family. He bought two slaves including Abdul for 930 pesos. Abdul didn't know how to speak english besides “Prince” so thats what Foster called him. When Abdul arrived to his new home he was in awe that Thomas Foster was living off the land due to the fact that Nachez was a spanish city but if you were an american you could settle there but you would have to live off the land. This came as a complete culture shock because in Futa Jallon it was a structure town with a constitution. “Prince” was confused and was going to have to learn how to adapt to his new life style of the one being obedient and not having the same luxuries as he did back in Africa.

Making the Best of it

Abdul attempted to run away but reality hit when he had no food or water and he realized there was no way he could get back to Africa so he went back to the Fosters home where a slave would usually get 50 lashes for being caught running away but since Prince was honest about it and turned himself in he did not receive any punishment and this established a more honest foundation between him and Thomas Foster. Prince decided to start working hard and with the new cotton business growing it was a good time to start. Cotton wasn't big so Foster ran one of the few and it was very successful Abdul worked hard each day and contributed immensely to the plantation. He met a woman and they later got married and had 9 children who are all owned by Foster.

Second Chance at Royalty

One day when Abdul was out in the town he working for Foster he saw Dr John Cox who was a doctor on a ship but got left behind,Rahman took him in sheltered him fed him and taught him about his culture until he could get back to America. They were both so excited to see each other that day Dr cox went to Thomas foster and asked to buy Prince for double his original price so he could repay Abdul and send him back to Africa but Foster stuck with no, no matter what price. Abdul also didn't want to go back because he had a family. Then when he met Andrew Marschalk, a printer Marschalk printed his story but it became so big because he stretched the truth that the president gets involved, after a triumph Prince actually gets freed but is forced to leave behind 9 kids they saved up enough money to free only 2. Abdul went back to Africa with his wife were his two kids eventually met up with him

Bibliography: Prince Among Slaves. Dir. Bill Duke & Andrea Kalin. PBS 2008

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Child Labor: Through The Feilds and Behind The Closed Doors

In today's class we discussed child labor. Every one in the class read articles about child labor and the horrific truth about it. Many kids referred back to the video of the two kids that work on a tobacco farm. This is good evidence of why child labor is so wrong because they talk about the pesticides hurting them getting tobacco poisoning and how they work 12 hour work days. Another article people referred to was the fact that some kids signed up for it to make extra income for their family. Kids were so desperate to help their parents keep a roof over their heads they signed up to be abused physically and emotionally. One final thing the group often mentioned was the illegal hours they made the children work. Many facilities that had child labor had them work 72 hours or more. This was bad for the kids health and safety.
In the Socratic seminar I  just had a few main points I kept brining up because they left an such an impact on me. One of which was that child labor also involved child prostitution and child trafficking for drugs. Not a lot of kids brought this up they stuck with the obvious facts but when I read about that I couldn't help but mention it because that.was the worst of what I had heard about child labor. Another point I brought up frequently was that child labor was so dangerous for the kids because in order for a kid to grow and develop properly he has to sleep and a lot at a young age -teens and they would get up at 4 am everyday a d start doing heavy lifting or dangerous jobs. Also for the children that were sold got not enough food or not the right food for a child to be healthy.One of my last and final points was that. It messed the kids up emotionally because they were treated like garbage and get nothing in return for there hard work. Again bringing up the orphans when they were sold by there own moth or father that messes them up a lot because the people that he loved the most gave him to this horrible life all alone for a couple hundred dollars and that again had a big impact on me.
My group was a very fun group to work with we always had ideas going and comments back and forth one thing we could have done better was eye contact.I would look at the person talking and they would be looking at the ground or at me Gleason. Another thing we should improve on is not repeating things that had already been said because a lot of the time we were stuck on one subject because no one would switch gears. Besides those 2 minor flaws my group did great. One thing we did really well was responding to people and bouncing ideas off each other although sometimes we got stuck in the mud it helped get a better understanding at some points. Another thing we all did well was wait a while before talking so if someone wanted to talk they could go which just thought was very polite because for those who talked less it gave them an opportunity to say something .

This report dated 9-15-14 has been provided for the urban planning committees  of various cities In England. My name is Devon Lewis, and as a mid-level city inspector I trust that you will use the information within to determine appropriate needs in urban planning for your municipalities. My report has been through as I have made use of all the sources available to me and have worked to guide you through my own analysis and critical thinking to a full description of the issues facing our cities.

There were some positive aspects of  Industrialization on Life & Work in the cities its healthy clean and spacious (Doc. B) and also a good safe environment to work in.  The employees love their jobs and love it even more because they get payed for it (Doc. E) These resources did not seem reliable they seemed very scripted and didn't add up with the happenings of the sweat shops.

The were many negative aspects of Industrialization on Life & Work in the cities. The machines cause so much pollution it’s causing the rivers to turn purple, theres so many machines and people that its so compacts hot and sweaty.(Doc. A) To add to those its very smoky polluting the air making it dangerous to breath in that people predicted the children working in their were not going to live long (Doc. C) along with the fact that the people were working so closely together if one got sick they all got sick it was sweaty hot and germy and the people slaved away all day with the smoke polluting their lungs and the oil is polluting their water. (Doc. D)

Over all I think that the industrial revolution had a positive effect because although the people who worked during the time had to endure terrible working conditions this is the basis of employment today. You have to go through many failures if you want to succeed.  Document A,C and D helped me process if it was positive or negative because they were more reliable sources the one documents B and E seem scripted and they clash with other documents and information and it just doesn't seem right . If the Industrial revolution had not slaved people through terrible conditions long hour and little pay we would have our up and running system today