Word: slaveborn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under slaveborn Dictator Toussaint L'Ouverture** Haiti had achieved independence. Napoleon challenged it, later captured Toussaint; but his successor, Christophe, kept Haiti free, went on to become its president and king, finally killed himself with a gold bullet. Haiti limits itself to Christophe's (Rex Ingram) rebellion against the French, doubles the excitement with a story of a French officer's wife (Elena Karam) whose father is Christophe's Negro...
...Manhattan went Tuskegee Institute's A. W. Curtis Jr., to raise $1,354,290 to build a laboratory dedicated to famed, slaveborn, seventyish Negro Botanist George Washington Carver-Said Mr. Curtis, "We want to build this laboratory honoring Dr. Carver while he is still alive. We want him to work in the laboratory so that we will have the benefit of his guidance and advice...
Negroes venerate especially: the Martyrs of Uganda; St. Benedict the Moor, 16th Century slaveborn monk; and St. Peter Claver, S. J., famed for his work in the early slave markets in Cartagena...