In Lincoln's speech in the "Lincoln- Douglas Debate" in 1858, Lincoln states "I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races I do not understand that because I do not want a Negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. ... I am now in my fifteenth year, and I certainly never have had a black woman for either a slave or a wife" (Lincoln-Douglas Debate 1858). ... These examples would explain how the lives of Southerners would be ruined and that the ...

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Robeson was encouraged to do so by his wife, Eslanda Cardozo, an African American woman, who he met during law school at Rutgers University (Contemporary Black Biography). ... Finally, in 1958, Paul Robeson was granted a passport, and he immediately left for England where he resided for five years; there he was showered with appreciation and glory, and yet, Robeson still felt "like a man who had no country" (Dictionary of American Biography). ... Although in his final years he was despised by his country; Paul Robeson's legacy as an outstanding performer and defender for civi...

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Slavery and the American Experience More than any other history of race relations in America, the struggle between white and black Americans is by the far the most complex and long standing. Beginning with first contact between white Europeans and Africans during the English colonial period, Af...

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African American literature, has its origins in the 18th century, has helped African Americans to find their voice in a country where laws were set against them. ... Still, the revelation that there exist people who do not worship her mother and are not under her control pleases Nel: "She [Nel] felt both pleased and ashamed to sense that these men, unlike her father, who worshiped his graceful, beautiful wife, were fuming with a hatred for her mother" (Morrison 22). ...

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The 1830 publication of the "Book of Mormon" by Joseph Smith, officially established the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ believe that Smith, under divine guidance, translated a set of golden plates into the Book of Mormon. This was the first of se...

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It turned Harlem into a sensation, a phenomenon, an even¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ something that Americans elsewhere in the country read about the mass-produced newspapers and magazines. ... Hart stated, "He had a most dramatic meeting with his literary idol of the time, Vachel Lindesayhe had a chat with Lindsay and his wife, and was given a gift of Amy Lowell's John Keats, along with a note directing him to study the New Poetry" (Hart 617). ...

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By being persona non grata in both countries, Jian-Wa need have loyalty to neither, and he, as Aihwa Ong might say, becomes a "flexible citizen- [3] able to negotiate transnational culture in a way a rooted, law-abiding, character with a legal visa or green card may not. ... As Hong Kong prepared to return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, the end of martial law in Taiwan made its political future less certain in the mid-1980s, and anti-Chinese sentiments in Southeast Asia and other parts of the world continued to take their toll, the heroism of a Chinese fugitive without a country could be...

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