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First and farmost is a woman who's courage I admire greatly.
Harriet Tubman
Harriet
Tubman was born a slave in 1821 near the eastern shore of
Maryland.
When she heard that her master's property would be sold ,she
escaped to freedom.
in Pensylvania.When she discovered what it was to be free,
she wanted to help other people to freedom.
She made at least fifteen trips to the south and lead at least
300 people to freedom.
She was given the name "Black Moses" as she led her
people to freedom.
THE BLACK FAMILY PLEDGE
by Dr. Maya Angelou
BECAUSE,
we have forgotten our ancestors, our children no longer give us
honor.
BECAUSE, we have lost the path our ancestors cleared kneeling in
perilous undergrowth, our children cannot find their way.
BECAUSE, we have banished the God of our ancestors, our children
cannot pray.
BECAUSE, the old wails of our ancestors have faded beyond our
hearing, our children cannot hear us crying.
BECAUSE, we have abandoned our wisdom of mothering and fathering,
our befuddled children give birth to children they neither want
nor understand.
BECAUSE, we have forgotten how to love, the adversary is within
our gates, and holds us up to the mirror of the world shouting,
"Regard the loveless."
THEREFORE, we pledge to bind ourselves to one another, to embrace
our lowliest, to keep company with our loneliest, to educate our
illiterate, to feed our starving, to clothe our ragged, to do all
good things, knowing that we are more than keepers of our
brothers and sisters.
WE ARE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS.
IN HONOR of those who toiled and implored God with golden tongues and in gratitude to the same God who brought us out of hopeless desolation, we make this pledge.
The Raok Group's TLC Committee has made a
wonderful page celebrating our rich culture.
It is packed with history and well worth the visit.
Although
as I've said this page is not to dwell on a dark past
those days are still apart of the Black American History.
Take a realistic look yourselves and witness where and how it all
began.
Slavelinks
