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- 721: Life And Times Of Fredrick Douglas
- ... scenes at the Christianity of the slaveholders. He begins with the verse in Genesis 9:20-27 concerning the cursing of Ham, which slaveholders used as Scriptural proof that American slavery was right. Even the foundation principles of the slaveholders Christianity were built on a false premise- the misinterpretation of an obscure passage of the Bible. Douglass continues to support the ...
- 722: 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 ...
- 723: King Solomon
- ... 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 ...
- 724: Karl Marx 6
- ... designed to help the men, women, and children whose labor supported the new industrial society. (World History, p 611) many of the new laws included free trade, the abolition of slavery, and a new criminal justice system. However, the major reforms were ones that included better working conditions, health conditions, and education. For example, in 1842, mine owners were forbidden to ...
- 725: Karl Marx 2
- ... and, above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself" (Marx, p.61-62) . Marx draws a picture of how the majority of the population is in an oppressed situation of slavery. The people of the proletariat are not to be envied. From here, Marx moves on to describe the oppressor, the bourgeois. He is quite eloquent in his description of this ...
- 726: Ida B. Wells 2
- ... 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 ...
- 727: George Washington Carver
- ... Carver, were slaves on that plantation. As a young infant, George along with his mother was kidnapped by Confederate night raiders and was taken to Arkansas to be sold into slavery. Moses Carver s owner searched for George and finally found him and reclaimed him, but his mother was already sold. The man who owned George at the time didn t ...
- 728: Fredrick Douglass 4
- ... trying to sell subscriptions. He later started his own antislavery news paper which spook out against the racial prejudice he found in the north. Although Frederick Douglas was born into slavery in the south, he lived to become one of the most influential figures in African American history and his actions had a great effect on the society of that time ...
- 729: Florence Nightingale 2
- ... Pop. Florence and Parthenope s parents were Fanny and William Nightingale. They were both from England. Her father was a Unitarian and a Whig who was involved in the anti-slavery movement. As a child, Florence was very close to her father, who without a son, treated her as his friend and companion. Florence's mother, Fanny Nightingale, also came from ...
- 730: 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 ...
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