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...Rahman, who was also a military commander, was captured by his enemies, sold to slave traders and eventually taken to a plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he spent the next 40 years using his agricultural and management skills to turn its owner into one of the wealthiest men in the antebellum South. Through a chance reunion with a man that Rahman and his father once helped when he traveled in Africa, and the support of a local newspaper publisher, a campaign for his freedom began, and Rahman became one of the best-known faces of the strengthening abolitionist movement...
...their previous Unity Productions Foundation work, Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet, learned about Prince Among Slaves while discussing the idea of a project based on the spiritual lives of slaves. After coming across Alford's book and contacting him, the two attended a reunion of Rahman's descendants in Natchez. That meeting, and subsequent research, introduced them to examples of African slaves who were able to hold on to their cultural and religious identities and use their educations and practical skills to help in the development of early America...
...turning deliberately against not only our own selfishness but our own selflessness, too. Instead of rigorous four-week language immersion classes, we should wander around in foreign countries poor and planless. We should skip out on repairing homes on the Mississippi coastline and join in on traveling up the Natchez Trace Parkway in a truck. We should substitute out bringing esteemed literary editors coffee for scrawling our own poems on the backs of napkins...
That means waiting--which the former Exxon chemical engineer doesn't like to do. Peers at Exxon dubbed Krouse "Iceman" because the Natchez, Miss., native once traveled to Naperville, Ill., in December for training that could have waited until spring. Eventually, in 2001, Krouse says, he was fired for pushing a pet chemical-engineering project too hard...
Heath says Law was the only white student in his high school class, and that when he was ordained a priest in Natchez-Jackson, Miss. in 1961, he was heavily involved in the Civil Rights movement there, fighting for the rights of blacks...