(Chung Seto) Repost from Call to Activism: Sometime in the late 40’s, before either man was famous, Frank Sinatra appeared in a theater in New York. After his show he went to Harlem to see the Will Maston Trio led by a young Sammy Davis Jr. Frank is blown away by Sammy’s talent and after ...
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" is the title of a speech delivered by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1852, in Rochester, New York. At the time, Douglass was a prominent African American abolitionist and former slave, known for his powerful oratory skills and advocacy for the rights of ...
More than 100 U.S. political elites have family links to slavery https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/ Legacy Admission to these families ? so deserving https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery-lawmakers/
The fact is, ladies and gentlemen, the distance between this platform and the slave plantation, from which I escaped, is considerable—and the difficulties to be overcome in getting from the latter to the former, are by no means slight. That I am here to---day is, to me, a matter of astonishmen ...
From as early as 1802 Captain William Layman had suggested that the colony of Trinidad would benefit greatly from free Chinese labour. It was felt that free Chinese labour would be a suitable substitute for African slave labour and that these “free civilized men” would set the African slave ...
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