Word: dean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They shall have ships," murmured Author Dean...
Even at the age of twelve Harry Dean felt in a measure responsible for his race. His great-grandfather, Paul Cuffee, was the first Negro to petition an American legislature against slavery. Paul's shipbuilder-father, Sam, was Said Kafu back in the old country-North Africa. Harry felt like carrying...
...when he was a man, in the '80s Harry Dean bought the schooner Pedro Gorino in Norway. For a while he traded, making money, saving it. Then one day he met a certain Portuguese official and was surprised to hear him say, after a little palaver: "I am offering you the vast territory of Portuguese East Africa including the city of Lorenco Marques for ?50,000 sterling." The territory was cheap because it stood between English and Boers, who were having a war. Dean wanted to snap up the offer with the aid of the tycoons...
...Dean went to Pondo Land. There he met a person much maligned by African whites, King Segow Faku. Dean tried to persuade this King to build ships and schools of his own. Dean reconciled the King with his ancient enemies, the Pondo Mesis. Then Dean went to King Lerothodi and Queen Baring, of Basutoland. He wanted to link Segow Faku, the Pondo Mesis and the Basutos. There would be a renaissance of the old African culture and civilization. Dean asked U. S. Negroes to send builders, educators. News came that all the other African Kings were gathered at Cape Town...
...Significance. Are conservative Houghton, Mifflin Co. treading the trail blazed by Simon & Schuster, fad promoters, publishers of Trader Horn and Cradle of the Deep? Is the Pedro Gorino another dubious "autobiography"? Like Ethelreda Lewis, amanuensis for Horn, Captain Dean's "assistant writer," Sterling North, met his subject receptively, admiringly. It was in March 1928, that University of Chicago authorities introduced them. Harry Dean, like Trader Horn, was broke, peddling his talents. North was 20, a poet, storyteller, student; Dean was 63, face sun-golden, hair silver, head ringing with words of Horace, Casanova, Cellini, Dumas. He had long been...