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Sarah "Sally" Hemings (c. 1773 – 1835)

Sarah Hemings was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by  President   Thomas Jefferson  and who is believed to have had a long-term relationship and six children with him, of whom four survived and all were given freedom by Jefferson. Hemings was the youngest of six siblings by the planter  John Wayles  and his mixed-race slave  Betty Hemings ; Sally was three-quarters European and a half-sister of Jefferson's wife,  Martha Wayles Skelton . In 1787, Hemings, at the age of 14, accompanied Jefferson's youngest daughter  Mary  (Polly) to London and then to Paris, where the widowed Jefferson, 44 years old at the time, was serving as the  United States Minister to France . Hemings spent two years there. It is believed by most historians that Jefferson began a sexual relationship with Hemings either in France or soon after their return to Monticello. Hemings had six children of record born into slavery; four survived to ad...

Denmark Vesey (1767 – July 2, 1822)

Denmark Vesey probably was born into slavery in St. Thomas but had been a  free black  for over 20 years before being accused and hanged in 1822 as the ringleader of "the rising," a major potential  Charleston, South Carolina  slave revolt. A skilled carpenter, Vesey had won a lottery and purchased his freedom at age 32 in 1799. He had a good business and a family, but was unable to buy his first wife Beck and their children out of slavery. Vesey became active in the Second Presbyterian Church; in 1818 he was among the founders of an  AME Church  in the city, which was supported by white clergy in the city and rapidly attracted 1,848 members, making this the second-largest AME congregation in the nation. In 1820 he was alleged to be the ringleader of a planned slave revolt. Vesey and his followers were said to be planning to kill slaveholders in Charleston, liberate the slaves, and sail to the black republic of  Haiti ...

Anna Murray-Douglass

(1813 – August 4, 1882) Anna Murray-Douglass was an American  abolitionist , member of the  Underground Railroad , and the first wife of American social reformer and statesman  Frederick Douglass , from 1838 to her death.  Anna Murray was born in  Denton, Maryland , to Bambar(r)a  and Mary Murray.  Unlike her seven older brothers and sisters, who were born in slavery, Anna Murray and her younger four siblings were born free,  her parents having been  manumitted  just a month before her birth.  A resourceful young woman, by the age of 17 she had established herself as a laundress and housekeeper.  Her laundry work took her to the docks, where she met Frederick Douglass,  who was then working as a  caulker . Murray's freedom made Douglass believe in the possibility of his own. When he decided to escape slavery in 1838, Murray encouraged and helped him by providing Douglass with some sailor's clothing her ...

Iron Eyes Cody

(born  Espera Oscar de Corti  April 3, 1904 – January 4, 1999)  He was an American  actor  born in Louisiana. Going by the name of Iron Eyes Cody, he portrayed  Native Americans  in  Hollywood  films.  In 1996, his 100 percent  Italian  ancestry was confirmed by his half-sister.   Cody was born  Espera Oscar de Corti  on April 3, 1904, in  Kaplan  in  Vermilion Parish , in southwestern  Louisiana , a second son of Antonio de Corti and his wife, Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from  Sicily . He had two brothers, Joseph William and Frank Henry, and a sister Victoria. His parents had a local grocery store in  Gueydan , Louisiana, where he grew up. His father left the family and moved to  Texas , where he anglicized his name as Tony Corti. His mother married Alton Abshire and had five more children with him. When the three de Corti brothers were teenagers, they joined their...

Real Men

• Real Men know to Preserve a Sacred Place in the Mind's Eye and in Heart, for Your Wife/Queen. • True Love is Rooted in the Unseen and if You Tear Down Your Wife, even in the Privacy of Your Own Thoughts; • You Diminish the Spiritual Power of the Blessing of the Gift of Her Love. • A Gift only Has the Value that is Assigned to the Gift,by the Recipient. • The More You Respect and Cherish Your Wife; the More She Will Open and Let You Enter Paradise. • A Woman is Like a Star ship which Can Take You to Dimensions and Worlds, Beyond the Boundaries of Imagination. • Men Can Only Experience Divinity Through a Woman. • No Matter How Large the Man Grows Spiritually or Intellectually • The Woman Can Encompass the Man. • Nature Made Men to Perfectly Fit Inside the Woman

Why Do You Hate on the Female So Hard

Why Do You Hate on the Female So Hard ? Who Else Can be Your Wife, Your Lover, and Friend ? When You Denigrate the Woman, You Can't Possibly Win. Who Else is Gonna Bear Your Child ? Who's Gonna Love You, When There are No Smiles ? Women Raise Tomorrow, that's for Sure Their High Self-Esteem, Men must Insure. You Think It's Cool, to Call Her a " Ho ". When It is to Her, for Comfort and Family, You must Go. Why Do You Spit out Misogynistic Words ? Don't You Know to the World, You Look Absurd ? Only a Fool Bites the Hand which Feeds Him. We Can Never be Divine without Them. You Can't Have a Healthy Community, If 51% - Women -You Disrespect with Impunity. Can't You Get It through Knucklehead ? Unless the Woman is Respected, We're All Dead. Who Molds the Minds of the Future, while You Sow Your Wild Oats? Who Makes Sure Your Kids Have Coats? You've been Suckered into Glorifying Pimps - A Pitiful Excuse for a Man, a Destructive W...