[1] His first ballad, deemed "The Gallery Slave", energized the small town of Natchez, Mississippi.
For the remaining thirty-six years of his life, he lived in Natchez and Washington, publishing various works.
In 1828 Andrew Marschalk found an interest in the case of Abdul Rahman Ibrahima Sori, a Fulani prince who had been enslaved in Natchez for almost 40 years.
He began gathering donations and successfully petitioned the Secretary of State, Henry Clay, to help return Abdulrahman to Africa.
[2] Marschalk later was alienated by Abdul Rahman’s subsequent tour through northern cities, seeking abolitionist help to raise funds to liberate his children.