Word: vesey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning. For black fighters were not only cheated in the ring; they were kept out of it. The Southern planters, who had found it as profitable and more entertaining than cock-fighting to pit their darkies against each other, found themselves in the shadow of black fighters such as Vesey, L'Ouverture, and Turner and did not wish to promote combativeness of any form among their slaves. How could they make their other slaves stand in fear if there were a black man amongst them who could equal John L. Sullivan's famous boast, "My name is John L. Sullivan...
There is more to be said, but much more that needs to be done. Black history gives us some ideas about what to do, such as Archibald H. Grimke's Right on the Seaffold, Wrong on the Throne, a sketch of Denmark Vesey's life. Check out the exhibit, Black Students at Harvard 1847-1900, on display at Widener Library. You will find it literally revealing...