Abdul Rahman exploited white benefactors’ causes purely to fund his freedom.

Evidence

Abdul Rahman Ibrahima was willing to cooperate with such people not because he necessarily shared their political views, but he wanted to raise the funds necessary for his family to emigrate. In this, he was remarkably successful—and given the horrors of slavery, who could blame him for using whatever resources were at his disposal to free him and his family? — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 371

Categorization

• CANDY: A neat inversion: the celebrated Muslim ‘supporter’ of evangelical abolitionism was quietly using them to buy his own family’s emancipation.