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Forced Immigration

c16sh — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:50:12 +0000

In fourth grade, our biggest Social Studies topic is immigration.In Edinger House we studied forced immigration from January to February. We went to the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan. They had buried a lot of bodies including children over 6 acres near City Hall.Also, c16ts’s dad came in to talk about Sierra Leone in Africa. He had a lot of pictures. My teacher wrote a book called Africa Is My Home: The Story of Sarah Margru Kinson. There is another post about her book if you scroll down. Margru traveled on the Amistad and a post about her is also further down. Enjoy studying more about Forced Immigration!

Margru Poem

c16sh — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:03:29 +0000

My class made poems about someone on the Amistad. I did Sarah Margru Kinson.

Africa Is My Home: The Story of Sarah Margru Kinson

c16sh — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:33:39 +0000

Africa Is My Home: The Story of Sarah Margru Kinson is a real nonfiction story of a person from Sierra Leone named Margru who goes to America as a slave because they think she is from Cuba. But she really is from Africa so she gets to go home in the end. My teacher, Ms. Edinger wrote a slightly fictionalized version that my whole class is reading and taking notes. We all are writing blog posts on it. Ms. Edinger uses a lot of good literary words like in the beginning page it says, “But they were wrong. I did go back to Africa. I did come home.” Ms. Edinger also uses a lot of historical pictures. On the cover image she has a drawing of Margru. She first goes to Havana, Cuba. Then Margru goes to Connecticut towns like New Haven, Farmington, and Bridgeport. It has a lot of historical people like in the Supreme Court when former president John Quincy Adams fights against Cinque, Margru, and the rest of the Amistad captives. I think you definitely should find out more about it!