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- 701: Paul L. Dunbar
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar was born June 27, 1872 in Dayton, OH. His mother Matilda, was a former slave and his father Joshua had escaped slavery and served in the 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment and the 5th Massachusetts Colored Calvary Regiment during the Civil war (online). Joshua and Matilda separated in 1874. Dunbar came from a poor family. After his father ...
- 702: P. T. Barnum
- ... who was another midget. Thumb won her and they were married December 10th 1863 with a private lavish wedding paid by Barnum. In 1865 Barnum was elected to the Connecticut legislator and wanted to abolish slavery. It was a high point in his political career. Two years later he started the Barnum Museum circus and Menagerie, which was his first traveling circus. The circus had finally come to town. In 1867 ...
- 703: Lewis Latimer
- Lewis Latimer Lewis Howard Latimer was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on September 4, 1848, six years after his parents, George and Rebecca Latimer, had run away from slavery in Virginia. They were determined to be free and that their children be born on free soil. Because of his light complexion, George was able to pose as a plantation owner with the darker-skinned ...
- 704: King Solomon
- ... the form of money, goods, or unpaid labor that furnished for his building projects. Besides taxes in money and produce, Solomon required large donations of free labor from the poor whom he practically pushed into slavery. Another important source of revenue for the royal treasury was that he expanded trade to a remarkable degree. The use of the Arabian camel brought a tremendous increase in trade. Caravans could now travel through ...
- 705: Ida B. Wells
- ... favor. One advantage Ida B. Wells was fortunate to claim was that gender relations in the Black community were very favorable. Due to the strenuous labor male and female African-Americans had to endure during slavery, neither sex proclaimed its opposite inferior and, therefore, Ida B. Wells was able to make huge leaps within the African-American community. For instance, Wells was able to become an outstanding journalist, become editor and ...
- 706: Harriet Tubman
- ... it was dark and slept during the day. She would hide in haystacks, barns, and houses. Harriet would always carry a revolver during her many trips to the South because a slave who returned to slavery could reveal people who facilitated the passages of escapees by offering them food ad shelter. Harriet would threaten to shoot anyone who out of fear of being caught decided to return during the trip north ...
- 707: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... and more eager to become a doctor. She and her family were very lucky to survive this trip. In October 1832, the Blackwells settled in a house in New York. They became involved in anti-slavery activities and held meetings in their house. At this time no medical school had ever accepted a female student, in fact no women had ever been except into college. But Elizabeth set her mind on ...
- 708: Eli Whitney
- By 1790 slavery was on the decline in America. Apart from tobacco, rice, and a special strain of cotton that could be grown only in very few places, the South really had no money crop to export. Tobacco ...
- 709: Christopher Columbus
- ... to him he only knew that he wanted to conquer it in the name of Spain for Ferdinand and Isabella. He didnt realize that he was doing anything wrong. He lived ina time of slavery and that was all he knew. It was a way of his life, therefore he brought it with him to the new world. Despite all of the negative conotations people have made in reguard to ...
- 710: Alice Walker
- ... Movement. She contemplated the fact that black women had been suppressed for so long that they would never know what kind of great artists they may have lost during all the times while there was slavery. This is what the short story "In Search of Our Mothers Gardens" discusses. The title has a special meaning because Walker is referring to her own mother. In this work, she discusses all the ...
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