Word: slaveborn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...borrowed from the book of Henri Christophe, the slaveborn general who helped free Haiti from the French, in 1811 proclaimed himself King Henry I. A Christophe decree, later made law, ordered that people coming to town on feast days should be neatly dressed. The democratic Estime revived it as one means of making Haiti as prosperous as it had been under the high-handed Christophe...
...late George Washington Carver, slaveborn agricultural chemist, went the honor of being the second* Negro in U.S. history to appear on a postage stamp...
...First: slaveborn Booker T. Washington...
...memory of his boyhood idols, Director Lindheimer has named these races after jockeys who made old Washington Park famous at the turn of the century: immortal Isaac Murphy, slaveborn Negro who won four American and three Kentucky Derbies; whip-snapping Snapper Garrison, whose habit of coming from behind to win made "Garrison finish...