<p>That's what's he's doing right now lol.</p>
<p>pandora, i'll help :)</p>
<p>how about the passage about the eyes and constellations? What did you guys put for the question about why did they use the word "puzzle"? I put the answer there isn't enough sensory data or something. Is that right?</p>
<p>finally there are people discussing the test i took.....glad to see that
for that question about the meaning of "trade"..its defnitely commerce
because profession doesnt make sense in the phrase "...a man of trade"
at least i believe so...but anyway..i dont have to worry about the reading part because i already have a perfect on it...</p>
<p>got it:</p>
<p>Among these was James Forten--a fine character, expressive of the best Negro development of the time. Born in 1766, and educated by Benezet, he "was a gentleman by nature, easy in manner and able in intercourse; popular as a man of trade or gentleman of the pave, and well received by the gentry of lighter shade."</p>
<p>gogogog commerce or profession?</p>
<p>NishtDawg:</p>
<p>Sure. It's from A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James Forten by Julie Winch and was published in 2003.</p>
<p>The passage was kind of fragmentary but I'm going to start on page (edit: 104)</p>
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Of course, what the records do not reveal are the interactions between James Forten and his tenants. We cannot tell from individuals' names and occupations how and where rents were paid, what kind of bargaining went on, and what degree of deference Forten expected and received from the men and women who lived in his properties. It is the minutiae of these tenant-landlord relationships, complicated as they may well have been by factors of race and class, that continue to elude us and leave a vital part of the story untold. 146</p>
<p>Equally elusive is the attitude of the white business community toward James Forten. Well-to-do Quaker Susanna Emlen knew something of Forten. In 1809 she sent a relative in England a copy of a Letter written by a black man of Philada to one of the friends of his oppressed brethren. She added a few words about the letter's author. He is a person of good character and considerable property employing at his sail loft many white persons. [O]n his marriage a few years ago it was said a number of the most respectable merchants in Philada called to congratulate him and drink punch with him. 147</p>
<p>Merchant Abraham Ritter indicated something of the mixed response to James Forten.</p>
<p>Mr. Forten was a gentleman by nature, easy in manner, and affable in intercourse; popular as a man of trade or gentleman of the pave, and well received by the gentlemen of lighter shade. He was very genteel in appearance, good figure, prominent features, and upon the whole rather handsome than otherwise. 148</p>
<p>Beyond Ritter's thumbnail sketch there are stray references to white businessmen greeting him in the street. Though he belonged to a proscribed race, it was no uncommon thing to see him shaking hands, or walking arm in arm, with merchants of the first respectability. 149 As his various court cases suggest, they were not reluctant to borrow money from him, either. Nor did they simply set their prejudices aside when it came time to ask for a loan. The inventory of Forten's estate proves that white merchants and shippers also loaned him money on occasions. How his various business relationships began and progressed, who visited Forten at his home and who called on him at his place of business, who took him by the hand and who greeted him in the streetthese are the dimensions of his life as a gentleman of the pave on which the records are silent.</p>
<p>African-American organizations elected James Forten to their boards. He served on the vestry of St. Thomas's Church many times from its founding to his death. He was a man who knew how to take care of business, in all its facets, whether it was arranging a loan or advising on the investment of funds. He was an officer of the African Lodge, whose records are replete with references to his handling of finances. He helped coordinate the raising of funds to support black schools and colleges. He gave white abolitionists advice on handling the marketing of antislavery publications. In short, what he did not know about the making and investing of money was probably not worth knowing.</p>
<p>In addition to his real estate interests and his moneylending, Forten held stocks and shares in various enterprises, including insurance companies and banks. For instance, he owned shares in the Mount Carbon Railroad Company, in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania's Schuylkill County. The brainchild of a consortium of businessmen in Philadelphia, Berks, and Schuylkill Counties, the company was incorporated in 1829. It opened books at a number of places, including the Philadelphia Coffee House. Shares cost $50 apiece. Like other rail lines in the region, it was intended to transport coal from the coal fields to the Schuylkill Canal. From the canal it would be transshipped to the Delaware, and eventually taken to Philadelphia for export. By 1827 more than 3,000 vessels per year were leaving Philadelphia loaded with coal. [153] James Forten knew a good investment when he saw one.</p>
<p>Precisely how wealthy James Forten was at any one point in his career is difficult to gauge. Most accounts indicate that the sail loft did a thriving business. An obituary noted that for many years until his death, Forten was the leading sailmaker in this city. 154 A white visitor in the 1830s marveled at the number of orders he had. He paid $10,000 per year in wages (a figure that seems impossibly high given what journeymen sailmakers earned), and had at one time the sails for ninety-five vessels engaged. 155 Evidence like this is useful. Account books and ledgers would be even more useful.</p>
<p>In 1838, in a bid to defeat the proposal to disfranchise people of color in Pennsylvania, white abolitionist Benjamin C. Bacon and African-American minister Charles W. Gardner went from house to house in Philadelphia's black community gathering data on schooling, home ownership, employment, and the like, for a massive census the Pennsylvania Abolition Society was undertaking to prove the general worthiness of black citizens. James Forten opposed disfranchisement, and spoke up loudly for equality before the law, but he withheld the details of his personal fortune, which must have been considerable. In 1832 he was paying tax on Bonds, Mortgages, Bank Stock and Ground Rents. 156 However worthy the causeand he was clearly in sympathy with the aims of the Pennsylvania Abolition Societythere were some things an astute businessman kept to himself.</p>
<p>IF THE NARRATIVE of James Forten's life as a gentleman of the pave has many more loose ends than, for example, the story of his involvement in the antislavery crusade, or his relationships with various family members, it is largely because of the nature of the evidence. His business interests were many, and it was as a businessman that he would often define himself. For example, when he wrote his friend, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, he alluded again and again to his need to attend to business. Business prevents more at this time. 157 I would have answered your Letter earlier had it not been owing to a multiplicity of business. 158 You know I am a man of business, and have not always time at my disposal. 159 Perhaps these were polite excuses for his delay in answering the editor's letters but, when all was said and done, he was a man of business. Sadly, the records that should enable us to get to the heart of his success in business have simply not survived. Pulling together the scattered pieces of the puzzle, the loose threads of half a century spent in the amassing of an impressive fortune, is a task that intrigues even as it ultimately frustrates. In matters of business James Forten did as any good gentleman of the pave would do. Aware that idle talk about one's affairs could prove costly, he kept his counsel and he keeps it still.
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I noticed I dropped it. It's in now. I'm bolding parts that have to do with questions I remember.
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<p>thats not the whole passage. do u happen to hav the part above that about "man of trade"?</p>
<p>virtuoso i got the same as you for that q...770 in april so you can trust it</p>
<p>You know, maybe where it said "You know I am a man of business" was instead "You know I am a man of trade" in the SAT passage - wi****l thinking on my part? ;)</p>
<p>Hmm.. why is CC filtering out the word W I S T F U L ?</p>
<p>i think so virtuoso</p>
<p>hahaha. no i dont think thats it. its on the previous page of the passage.</p>
<p>no in SAT passage the man of trade phrase was in quotation mark....</p>
<p>here it is:</p>
<p>Mr. Forten was a gentleman by nature, easy in manner, and affable in intercourse; popular as a man of trade or gentleman of the pave, and well received by the gentlemen of lighter shade. He was very genteel in appearance, good figure, prominent features, and upon the whole rather handsome than otherwise.</p>
<p>lol pandora
it has s t f u in it
stands for shut the f*** up</p>
<p>eh, do you think that CR was more confusing than usual?</p>
<p>that tells me its profession, cause the context around it is about being professional</p>
<p>thanks guys</p>
<p>also gosh I missed two of the fill in the blanks because i didn't know gerrymandering and i left the one about the machine blank. If I missed those two plus let's say two more, what would my score be? I got a 730 last time and would be devastated if I got less than that this time.</p>
<p>lol tripNip, I never realized it. Funny how CC just censored out an SAT word.</p>
<p>Acutally, I didn't think it was confusing at all... until I came here.</p>
<p>Edit: Virtuoso, the curve gave me an 800 for 2 wrong last time, so no way you'll be getting a 730 or below. </p>
<p>Hasn't anyone googled "man of trade" yet? It's a pre-defined phrase that means "man of commerce" Someone confirm this please.</p>
<p>guys it is totally 'commerce' gosh</p>
<p>do i have to say again that "man of trade" in the SAT passage is in quotation mark....its someelse's comments on the guy</p>