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Abd al-rahman achievements

After spending 40 years in slavery, he was freed in and returned to Africa the following year, but died in Liberia within months of arrival. In he was given command of cavalry troops for a campaign against the 'Hebohs', [ 4 ] who had been harassing the European ships that carried out the Fulani trade in war-captive slaves and the crops to sustain them during the Middle Passage.

The captive Abdul Rahman was taken to the Gambia River and there sold onto the slave ship Africa , [ 4 ] [ 12 ] reportedly for "two bottles of rum, eight hands of tobacco, two flasks of powder, and a few muskets". On Christmas Day, , he married Isabella, another woman that Foster enslaved, and eventually fathered a large family of nine children.

Though Abdul Rahman regularly attended services with his family by , he continued to have objections to those aspects of Christianity that contradicted the Islamic faith of his upbringing, particularly the doctrine of the Trinity , while also criticizing how Christianity was practiced in the context of American plantation slavery. Being respected by the other enslaved people on the plantation and viewed as loyal and trustworthy, he showed an aptitude for managing cattle and supervising other enslaved people in the growing of cotton, and due to this status, he was allowed to walk to a local market at Washington, Mississippi , to sell vegetables.

John Coates Cox. He was rescued and taken to Timbo as a curiosity. There he healed, residing for six months in the household of Abdul Rahman's family, before being escorted back to the coast to find transport home. In , at the encouragement of local newspaperman, Andrew Marschalk , Abdul Rahman wrote a letter in Arabic to his family, and this letter was forwarded via United States Senator Thomas Reed to the U.

Consulate in Morocco. On May 15, he had an audience with President Adams, to whom he expressed his desire to see his five sons and eight grandchildren emancipated.

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Before leaving the United States, Abdul Rahman and his wife went on a month tour of various northern cities to solicit donations through the press, personal appearances, the American Colonization Society , and politicians to be used to free his family in Natchez. Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet. Abdul Rahman and Isabella's funds only bought the freedom of two sons and their families.

The eight progeny were reunited with Isabella in Monrovia the year after his death. Foster's estate, including those children and grandchildren of Abdul Rahman who remained enslaved, was divided among his heirs.