PREFACE AND COMPILER'S NOTES.
IN compiling the following pages, many difficulties have had naturally to be encountered, in consequence of the imperfect English spoken by Mahommah, but great care has been taken to render the work as readabl ...
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Some Memoirs of the Life of Job,
the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa;
Who was a Slave About Two Years in Maryland;
and Afterwards Being Brought to England, was Set Free,
and Sent to His Native Land in the Year 1734
When JOB ...
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African Iron Production: A Review of Recent Publications
The Culture and Technology of African Iron Production
by P.R. Schmidt (ed.)
University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1996
338 pp. (bibliography, index)
ISBN 0-8130-1384-4
£40.00 ...
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African men with iron making skills were imported to the Chesapeake to work as blacksmiths on plantations and in the iron industry that, by the early 18th century, had begun to develop in Colonial America. Ironworkers were an elite group in West and ...
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You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a ...
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“But black class divisions were real and often important in Allen’s Philadelphia. Emma Lapsansky-Werner has noted that black Philadelphia was a study in economic contrasts by the 1820s and 1830s. Standing tall at the top 5 percent were economic e ...
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Freedom's Prophet is a long-overdue biography of Richard Allen, founder of the first major African-American church and the leading black activist of the early American republic. A tireless minister, abolitionist, and reformer, Allen inaugurated some ...
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The 1997 Revisions to the Standards for the Classification of Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, issued by OMB, is available at www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg/1997standards.html
The OMB requires federal agencies to use a minimum of two ethnicities ...
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STRONG as in Living a Morally Strong life as a growing female AND not participating in Marital Relations without Marriage?
STRONG as in choosing Purity and Cleanliness in young female growth?
STRONG as in choosing Marriage over RECKLESS, UNHEAL ...
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Will Republicans go after Monica Lewinsky’s story with too much piety, or will they hit hard where they might make a charge that could sting: for the callous treatment of a young woman who got in the Clinton’s political way? Howard Fineman and Ni ...
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Nothing is more precious than peace. Nothing brings more happiness. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
Shin'ichi Yamamoto
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FACT SHEET: Opportunity for all: President Obama Launches My Brother’s Keeper Initiative to Build Ladders of Opportunity For Boys and Young Men of Color
“I’m reaching out to some of America’s leading foundations and corporations on a new i ...
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May 03, 2014 | 19:29 | Public Domain
President Obama at the 2014 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C.
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Rachel Maddow describes how global pressure against the death penalty in the United States created a shortage of lethal injection drugs, forcing death penalty states to seek alternatives that have led to complications and botched executions. ...
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