It was always going to be a long and arduous journey with perhaps no complete end. After all whilst they had their support of some of the white population, changing the views of generations of racial bigots, particularly in the South was a journey fraught with problems. ... His later life as a vocal person did not happen by mere chance but was instilled into him at a very young age through a whole family line of preachers: "Of course I was religious. ... King would soon come face to face with this black and white struggle soon enough anyway when his two best friends, young white boys who lived...

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In his analysis of a slave ship, in 1829, the Reverend Robert Walsh pointed out that "The space between decks was divided into two compartments 3 feet 3 inches high; the size of one was 16 feet by 18 and of the other 40 by 21; into the first were crammed the women and girls, into the second the men and boys". ... The space was so low that they sat between each other's legs and were stowed so close together that there was no possibility of their lying down or at all changing their position by night or day". ... Men, women and children were crammed into every available space, denied ade...

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