“She fell at his feet and clung to his knees, entreating him in tones that a mother only could command to buy her baby as well as herself. … I must have been then between 5 and 6 years old. I seem to see and hear my poor weeping mother now.”
— Josiah Henson, a slave in Maryland, in his account of his life from 1858
“The Negroes at home are quite disconsolate but this will soon blow over. They may see their children again in time.”
— Thomas Chaplin, a slave owner, in 1845, quoted in “Help Me to Find My People,” by Heather Andrea Williams
“It’s happening a lot faster than we thought,” said Rogelio Sáenz, a demographer at the University of Texas at San Antonio and a co-author of the report. It examines the period from 1999 to 2016 using data from the National Center for Health Statistics, the federal agency that tracks births and deaths. He said he was so surprised at the finding that at first he thought it was a mistake.
However, Franklin said there is "profound skepticism" whether Foxconn will benefit businesses near them. Two thirds (66 percent) of respondents said it wouldn't benefit local businesses, compared with 25 percent who said it would benefit them. Additionally, 62 percent raised concerns about the environmental impact of the factory and 32 percent said they were not concerned.
The change gives Foxconn more flexibility in deciding which products to produce in Wisconsin but also removes the need for a Corning glass plant to co-locate at the site, Louis Woo, special assistant to Foxconn chairman Terry Gou, said in an interview this week.
