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...mass canonization came about after the church obtained from inside the Soviet Union a document verifying the circumstances of thousands of martyrs' deaths. Most died in slave-labor camps. For the final ceremony, 1,000 clergy and laity turned up, including Prince Vladimir, the Pretender to the Russian throne, and many converts: an Arab abbess, a Sioux priest from South Dakota, and two Japanese seminarians...
There is a River: The Black Struggle for Freedom in America attempts to show the continuity of the Black fight for justice, from the beginning of the slave trade to the end of the Civil War. By reexamining Black history and depicting the different but interrelated protests that Blacks have made throughout the centuries, Vincent Harding hopes to identify the long, continuous course of the "river" that continues to flow even now. Veteran of the Black freedom movement in the 1960s, first director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center and teacher of history, Harding shows bias in River...
...struggle began when Africans were packed into slave ships, where, even after being kidnapped, chained and beaten, they choose again and again to face the firearms of the whites. Sometimes their spirits, resolve and sheer numbers would overwhelm the enemy, but more often than not, they failed. Yet whites on those vessels admitted that the Africans never conceded and would always renew the battle. But once out of sight of the African shore, suicide remained as the only truly viable form of protest for the soon-to-be slaves; though starvation and drowning seem to be passive actions of giving...
...Wisely, she did not resist. Surrounding the house was a small army of 50 G-men, four SWAT teams, two tanks and, overhead, two helicopters. Another 50 agents and two more tanks were stationed near by. Boston, who prefers the name Fulani Sunni-Ali to what she calls her "slave name," is the minister of information for the R.N.A. The farmhouse was apparently used by the group to give paramilitary training to teenagers...
...meantime, consider the story of Ponce de León, who was in his 50s when he first heard of the Fountain of Youth. He had subdued the natives of Puerto Rico to become a secure but bored governor. Supposedly an old Indian slave told him of the magic water, one sip of which would reverse the terrible effects of age. In 1512 the old rascal put out with three ships bound for Bimini, the supposed location of the fountain. Ponce found only the Sargasso Sea, the islands called the Dry Tortugas and flying fish. Eight years later, convinced that...