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- 741: Thomas_Jefferson
- ... July 4, 1826, corresponding with John Adams about the great issues of revolution and constitutinalism, trying to preserve his declinig estate for his daughters instead of his creditors, and brooding aver the baneful effects of slavery. He was unwilling, for financial reasons, to free his own slaves, and he disagreed with abolitionist friends who held that blacks were equal to whites. His paradoxical beliefs in human dignity and in racial inferiority ...
- 742: Booker T. Washington
- ... and social segregation if whites would encourage black progress in economic and educational opportunity. Hailed as a sage by whites of both sections, Washington further consolidated his influence by his widely read autobiography Up From Slavery (1901), the founding of the National Negro Business League in 1900, his celebrated dinner at the White House in 1901, and control of patronage politics as chief black advisor to Presidents Theodor Roosevelt and William ...
- 743: Satyagraha, A Weapon Of Non-vi
- ... an Indian name for this basically Indian movement. Hence Gandhi adopted the word Satyagraha. When it came time to register under the act, only five percent of the Indian community took out The bond of slavery, (Gandhi, 1927) though the limit for registration was extended again and again. Consequently, many Indians were imprisoned for their disobedience of the law, and Gandhi in the spirit of Satyagraha, asked for the heaviest penalty ...
- 744: 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 ...
- 745: Polygamy
- ... January 1852 issue, p.7, see also Doctrine & Covenants section 132. 1st published 1876 SLC.) 1856, The new Republican party selected for it's national platform a call to abolish the "Twin Relics of Barbarism, Slavery and Polygamy". ("The Mormons and the Law: The Polygamy Cases", Orma Lindord, Utah Law Review, p. 312.) 1856 March 17, The 2nd proposal for Statehood for the State of Deseret, rejected due to growing anti ...
- 746: 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 ...
- 747: Poe And Thoreau
- ... a better life for mankind. His beliefs of society, government, and mankind while living under his own disapprobation led to some of his greatest works in literature. Some of these works include Walden, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts and A plea for Captain John Brown. In his essay Civil Disobedience, Thoreau expresses his belief in the power and the duty of the individual to determine right from wrong
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- 748: Mark Twain
- ... attended private school for the first time at the age of nine.Twain didnt have very luxurious life growing up because his family was extremely poor. Because of his upbringing, Twain started believing that slavery was part of the natural order. Twains childhood may not have been luxurious but it was a curious childhood full of weird, fantastic impressions and many contradictory influences. Like his father never really being ...
- 749: 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 ...
- 750: Nat Turner
- Nat Turner was born on October 2, 1800 as property of a small plantation owner in Southampton, Virginia. His mother strongly hated slavery, and this hate was passed down to Nat. In his early twenties he was sold to a neighboring farm. He was sold again in 1831 to the Joseph Travis family. Shortly after he was sold ...
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