Black Women Inwards Europe: Ability Listing 2010

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Black Women Inwards Europe: Ability Listing 2010

Courtesy of Adrianne George , Integrated Marketing Communications Consultant at AG Communications Group (Stockholm, Sweden) Black Women in...

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David Walker's Appeal: The Historical Document Of 1829

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbHUeM4jccFOooVQTjg5_IkEjhkAvJena8h4_G1H1JElPZpCifrRRC9_2kGdemcXHKbqAWegWIn1iWS6u57rJaGdeWu1ZY4AXi-OgKOEhyCWeyQgoIWMWd4SXqi95246fNKycFdNV2NU/s1600/Photo+David+Walker's+Appeal+Pan+African.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDbHUeM4jccFOooVQTjg5_IkEjhkAvJena8h4_G1H1JElPZpCifrRRC9_2kGdemcXHKbqAWegWIn1iWS6u57rJaGdeWu1ZY4AXi-OgKOEhyCWeyQgoIWMWd4SXqi95246fNKycFdNV2NU/s320/Photo+David+Walker's+Appeal+Pan+African.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Published inward Septem</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ber 1829, David Walker's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Appeal </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;">is </span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #330000;">cited with Pan African scholars every bit the most</span><span style="color: #330000;"> exacting</span></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></span><br /> <div style="color: #330000; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">anti-slavery document of its time.</span></span></div></div></div></td></tr> </tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Excerpts from David Walker's </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Appeal</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /> <i>My dearly love Brethren too Fellow Citizens.</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Having travelled over a considerable part of these United States, too having, inward the course of report of my travels, taken the most accurate observations of things every bit they be -- the final result of my observations has warranted the total too unshaken conviction, that we, (coloured people of these United States,) are the most degraded, wretched, too abject laid of beings that ever lived since the world began; too I pray God that none similar us ever may alive in i trial again until fourth dimension shall go no more. They tell us of the Israelites inward Egypt, the Helots inward Sparta, too of the Roman Slaves, which finally were made upwardly from virtually every state nether heaven, whose sufferings nether those ancient too infidel nations, were, inward comparing with ours, nether this enlightened too Christian nation, no to a greater extent than than a cypher -- or, inward other words, those infidel nations of antiquity, had but petty to a greater extent than with them than the hollo too shape of slavery; spell wretchedness too endless miseries were reserved, manifestly inward a phial, to go poured out upon, our fathers ourselves too our children, by <i>Christian</i> Americans! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;">... I telephone telephone upon the professing Christians, I telephone telephone upon the philanthropist, I telephone telephone upon the real tyrant himself, to demo me a page of history, either sacred or profane, on which a poesy tin flame go found, which maintains, that the Egyptians heaped the <i>insupportable insult</i> upon the children of Israel, past times telling them that they were non of the <i>human family</i>. Can the whites deny this charge? Have they not, afterward having reduced us to the distressing status of slaves nether their feet, held us upwardly every bit descending originally from the tribes of <i>Monkeys</i> or <i>Orang-Outangs</i>? O! my God! I appeal to every human being of feeling-is non this insupportable? Is it non heaping the most gross insult upon our miseries, because they have got got us nether their feet too nosotros cannot assist ourselves? Oh! compassion us nosotros pray thee, Lord Jesus, Master. -- Has Mr. Jefferson declared to the world, that nosotros are inferior to the whites, both inward the endowments of our bodies too our minds? It is indeed surprising, that a human being of such slap-up learning, combined with such first-class natural parts, should verbalize so of a laid of men inward chains. I make non know what to compare it to, unless, similar putting i wild deer inward an Fe cage, where it volition go secured, too concord some other past times the side of the same, too so allow it go, too hold back the i inward the cage to run every bit fast every bit the i at liberty. So far, my brethren, were the Egyptians from heaping these insults upon their slaves, that Pharaoh's miss took Moses, a boy of State of Israel for her own, every bit volition look past times the following. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">The world knows, that slavery every bit it existed was, mans, (which was the primary displace of their destruction) was, comparatively speaking, no to a greater extent than than a <i>cypher</i>, when compared with ours nether the Americans. Indeed I should non have got noticed the Roman slaves, had non the real learned too penetrating Mr. Jefferson said, "when a master copy was murdered, all his slaves inward the same house, or inside hearing, were condemned to death." -- Here allow me enquire Mr. Jefferson, (but he is gone to respond at the bar of God, for the deeds done inward his torso spell living,) I hence enquire the whole American people, had I non rather die, or go lay to death, than to go a slave to whatsoever tyrant, who takes non only my own, but my married adult woman too children's lives past times the inches? Yea, would I encounter expiry with avidity far! far!! inward preference to such <i>servile submission</i> to the murderous hands of tyrants. Mr. Jefferson's real severe remarks on us have got been so extensively argued upon past times men whose attainments inward literature, I shall never go able to reach, that I would non have got meddled with it, were it non to solicit each of my brethren, who has the spirit of a man, to purchase a re-create of Mr. Jefferson's "Notes on Virginia," too lay it inward the mitt of his son. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">But allow us review Mr. Jefferson's remarks respecting us some further. Comparing our piteous fathers, with the learned philosophers of Greece, he says: "Yet notwithstanding these too other discouraging circumstances with the Romans, their slaves were oftentimes their rarest artists. They excelled too, inward science, insomuch every bit to go unremarkably employed every bit tutors to their master's children; Epictetus, Terence too Phaedrus, were slaves, -- but they were of the race of whites. It is non their <i>condition</i> then, but <i>nature</i>, which has produced the distinction." See this, my brethren! ! Do yous believe that this assertion is swallowed past times millions of the whites? Do yous know that Mr. Jefferson was i of every bit slap-up characters every bit ever lived with the whites? See his writings for the world, too populace labours for the the States of America. Do yous believe that the assertions of such a man, volition go past times away into oblivion unobserved past times this people too the world? If yous make yous are much mistaken-See how the American people process us -- have got nosotros souls inward our bodies? Are nosotros men who have got whatsoever spirits at all? I know that at that spot are many <i>swell-bellied</i> fellows with us, whose greatest object is to fill upwardly their stomachs. Such I make non hateful -- I am afterward those who know too feel, that nosotros are MEN, every bit good every bit other people; to them, I say, that unless nosotros endeavour to refute Mr. Jefferson's arguments respecting us, nosotros volition only flora them. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...I must notice to my brethren that at the unopen of the commencement Revolution inward this country, with Great Britain, at that spot were but xiii States inward the Union, right away at that spot are twenty-four, most of which are slave-holding States, too the whites are dragging us but about inward chains too inward handcuffs, to their novel States too Territories to piece of employment their mines too farms, to enrich them too their children-and millions of them believing firmly that nosotros beingness a petty darker than they, were made past times our Creator to go an inheritance to them too their children for ever-the same every bit a parcel of <i>brutes</i>.</div><span style="color: #330000;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #330000;">Are nosotros MEN! ! -- I enquire you, O my brethren I are nosotros MEN? Did our Creator construct us to go slaves to dust too ashes similar ourselves? Are they non dying worms every bit good every bit we? Have they non to construct their appearance earlier the court of Heaven, to respond for the deeds done inward the body, every bit good every bit we? Have nosotros whatsoever other Master but Jesus Christ alone? Is he non their Master every bit good every bit ours? -- What correct then, have got nosotros to obey too telephone telephone whatsoever other Master, but Himself? How nosotros could go so <i>submissive</i> to a gang of men, whom nosotros cannot tell whether they are every bit skilful every bit ourselves or not, I never could conceive. However, this is unopen upwardly with the Lord, too nosotros cannot exactly tell -- but I declare, nosotros approximate men past times their works.</span></div><span style="color: #330000;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #330000;">The whites have got e'er been an unjust, jealous, unmerciful, avaricious too blood-thirsty laid of beings, e'er seeking afterward ability too authority. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><span style="color: #330000;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #330000;">...to my no ordinary astonishment, [a] Reverend gentleman got upwardly too told us (coloured people) that slaves must go obedient to their masters -- must make their duty to their masters or go whipped -- the whip was made for the backs of fools, &c. Here I time out for a moment, to give the world fourth dimension to consider what was my surprise, to listen such preaching from a government minister of my Master, whose real gospel is that of peace too non of blood too whips, every bit this pretended preacher tried to construct us believe. What the American preachers tin flame intend of us, I aver this 24-hour interval earlier my God, I have got never been able to define. They have got newspapers too monthly periodicals, which they have inward continual succession, but on the pages of which, yous volition scarcely ever disclose a paragraph respecting slavery, which is 10 1000 times to a greater extent than injurious to this province than all the other evils lay together; too which volition go the finally overthrow of its government, unless something is real rapidly done; for their loving cup is nearly full.-Perhaps they volition express joy at or construct lite of this; but I tell yous Americans! that unless yous rapidly modify your course, <i>you</i> and your <i>Country are gone! ! ! ! </i></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">If whatsoever of us see gibe to go away, go to those who have got been for many years, too are right away our greatest earthly friends too benefactors -- the English. If non so, go to our brethren, the Haytians, who, according to their word, are jump to protect too comfort us. The Americans say, that nosotros are ungrateful-but I enquire them for heaven's sake, what should nosotros go grateful to them for -- for murdering our fathers too mothers ? -- Or make they wishing us to supply thank yous to them for chaining too handcuffing us, branding us, cramming burn downwards down our throats, or for keeping us inward slavery, too beating us nearly or quite to expiry to construct us piece of employment inward ignorance too miseries, to back upwardly them too their families. They sure enough intend that nosotros are a gang of fools. Those with them, who have got volunteered their services for our redemption, though nosotros are unable to compensate them for their labours, nosotros yet give thank yous them from the bottom of our hearts, too have got our eyes steadfastly fixed upon them, too their labours of love for God too man. -- But make slave-holders intend that nosotros give thank yous them for keeping us inward miseries, too taking our lives past times the inches? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">Let no human being of us budge i step, too allow slave-holders come upwardly to trounce us from our country. America is to a greater extent than our country, than it is the whites-we have got enriched it with our <i>blood too tears</i>. The greatest riches inward all America have got arisen from our blood too tears: -- too volition they drive us from our belongings too homes, which nosotros have got earned with our <i>blood</i>? They must expression abrupt or this real matter volition convey swift devastation upon them. The Americans have got got so fatty on our blood too groans, that they have got virtually forgotten the God of armies. But allow the go on. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">Do the colonizationists intend to post us off without commencement beingness reconciled to us? Do they intend to packet us upwardly similar brutes too post us off, every bit they did our brethren of the State of Ohio? Have they non to go reconciled to us, or reconcile us to them, for the cruelties with which they have got afflicted our fathers too us? Methinks colonizationists intend they have got a laid of brutes to bargain with, sure enough. Do they intend to drive us from our province too homes, afterward having enriched it with our blood too tears, too maintain dorsum millions of our dear brethren, sunk inward the most fell wretchedness, to dig upwardly gilt too argent for them too their children? Surely, the Americans must intend that nosotros are brutes, every bit some of them have got represented us to be. They intend that nosotros make non experience for our brethren, whom they are murdering past times the inches, but they are dreadfully deceived. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><span style="color: #330000;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #330000;">What state nether heaven, volition go able to make whatsoever matter with us, unless God gives us upwardly into its hand? But Americans. I declare to you, spell yous maintain us too our children inward bondage, too process us similar brutes, to construct us back upwardly yous too your families, nosotros cannot go your friends. You make non expression for it make you? Treat us too so similar men, too nosotros volition go your friends. And at that spot is non a incertitude inward my mind, but that the whole of the past times volition go sunk into oblivion, too nosotros yet, nether God, volition acquire a united too happy people. The whites may tell it is impossible, but hollo back that nix is impossible with God. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><span style="color: #330000;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #330000;">I count my life non dear unto me, but I am ready to go offered at whatsoever moment, For what is the operate of living, when inward fact I am dead. But remember, Americans, that every bit miserable, wretched, degraded too abject every bit yous have got made us inward preceding, too inward this generation, to back upwardly yous too your families, that some of you, (whites) on the continent of America, volition yet curse the 24-hour interval that yous ever were born. You desire slaves, too desire us for your slaves ! ! ! My color volition yet, root some of yous out of the real human face upwardly of the world ! ! ! ! ! ! You may incertitude it if yous please. I know that thousands volition doubt-they intend they have got us so good secured inward wretchedness, to them too their children, that it is impossible for such things to occur. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #330000; text-align: justify;">...</div><span style="color: #330000;"></span><br /> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #330000;">See your Declaration Americans! ! ! Do yous sympathise your ain language? Hear your languages, proclaimed to the world, July 4th, 1776 -- "We concord these truths to go self evident -- that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! ! that they <i>are endowed past times their Creator with sure unalienable rights;</i> that with these are life, <i>liberty</i>, too the pursuit of happiness! !" Compare your ain linguistic communication above, extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties too murders inflicted past times your cruel too unmerciful fathers too yourselves on our fathers too on us -- men who have got never given your fathers or yous the to the lowest degree provocation! ! ! ! ! ! </span></div></div>

David Walker's Appeal: The Historical Document Of 1829

Published inward Septem ber 1829, David Walker's  Appeal  is  cited with Pan African scholars every bit the most  exacting anti-slav...

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Edward Wilmot Blyden On Liberia

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjeaToUaOm4ZQvKwwqNBhzWA28wsyldQKoJ-uungVyQ2D_76BMpqZPIZn2bvhVsZAt63MiEAHB7uK9YNO78R9afWDNsmvVc8BrFBAAOWacdxSbBtyoxgGHx0CbgYwy0W0JYC0bfb0Hgs/s1600/Edward+Wilmot+Blyden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLjeaToUaOm4ZQvKwwqNBhzWA28wsyldQKoJ-uungVyQ2D_76BMpqZPIZn2bvhVsZAt63MiEAHB7uK9YNO78R9afWDNsmvVc8BrFBAAOWacdxSbBtyoxgGHx0CbgYwy0W0JYC0bfb0Hgs/s320/Edward+Wilmot+Blyden.jpg" width="252" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Edward Wilmot Blyden (b. 8/3/1832 - d. 2/7/1912)</td></tr> </tbody></table> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> On August 3,1832, Edward Wilmot Blyden was born inwards Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Island, West Indies. He is considered by many historians as the manly individual parent of <a href="http://www.columbia.edu/ hcb8/EWB_Museum/Legacy.html" target="_blank">Pan-Africanism</a>. His writings together with speeches are with the earliest plant on the dependent area of Africans returning to the continent after the deport upon of the European Trans-Atlantic slave trade, fifty-fifty predating the influence of the belatedly Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr..</div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> Blyden was an educator, author together with diplomat who became real active inwards the the States together with inwards West Africa. He is noted to last with the outset iii Africans admitted to Harvard Medical School. He would afterward move an active political figure in Liberia, the West African nation settled yesteryear costless together with freed Africans primarily from the Americas together with West Indies. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <br /></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <span id="dscexpitem_2113845634_3">When he married Sarah Yates, of the prominent Yates family of Liberia, he would last joining the prominent solid unit of measurement of Beverly Page Yates, the Liberian vice-president from 1856-1860. The Blydens had iii children. </span></div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on"> <br /> <span id="dscexpitem_2113845634_3">While inwards West Africa, Blyden also taught inwards Sierra Leone where he became an influential intellectual force. </span>A frequent commentator on the political together with historical actions of African nations to their global diaspora, Blyden spoke publicly on Ethiopia's win on Nov 16, 1875 at the Battle of Gundet against an Arab Republic of Egypt led yesteryear colonial Arabs. Both Blyden together with his contemporary, Martin Robinson Delany, praised the Gundet win as an African victory. </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpfn_58h2ru1wgj09arXVn0UCTuymjAxULWenA5FQmrIzrBvL-RJ0ruVcaRHoi71BRYlZJfSVITsmbmmbAFPhZQyzoCNCF_KwiqTyPyDGQUtYjUlV20Pepd26M1-9r0X0LuZkai2PbPw/s1600/Ethiopia%2527s+win+at+the+Battle+of+Gundet+over+colonized+Egypt+on+1875+observed+by+Martin+Delany+Edward+Blyden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikpfn_58h2ru1wgj09arXVn0UCTuymjAxULWenA5FQmrIzrBvL-RJ0ruVcaRHoi71BRYlZJfSVITsmbmmbAFPhZQyzoCNCF_KwiqTyPyDGQUtYjUlV20Pepd26M1-9r0X0LuZkai2PbPw/s1600/Ethiopia%2527s+win+at+the+Battle+of+Gundet+over+colonized+Egypt+on+1875+observed+by+Martin+Delany+Edward+Blyden.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" /></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Pan-African Perspective of the Battle of Gundet, Ethiopia</td></tr> </tbody></table> </a>Below is 1 of the many public speeches yesteryear Edward Wilmot Blyden. Published July 27, 1857, this spoken language addresses some of the pressing issues facing the new settlers at Republic of Liberia -- many of whom were newly freed from the Americas. Blyden addressed the occupation that arises when a public is driven yesteryear a want to last "rich", equally seen yesteryear the conspicuous consumption patterns Blyden notes in the novel inhabitants to Liberia. In this speech, Blyden also brings to the forefront of his listeners the economic perils ofdependence on the unusual assistance of the United States. </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> * * * * </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <b> Liberia equally She is; together with the Present Duty of her Citizens  </b></div> <br /> [An Independence Day address given at Monrovia, July 27, 1857      <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> African Repository, Nov 1857, pp. 328-32.]  </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div>  What then…are the moral causes of the acquaint evils inwards Liberia? …    … equally a people nosotros accept been inwards likewise much haste to last rich. Relinquishing the pursuit of those attributes that would tally us for the faithful discharge of our peculiar duties equally men, equally Liberians, equally an baby nation, nosotros accept used every possible stair out to lift our pecuniary importance; together with inwards the precipitate efforts at wealth, nosotros accept non been careful equally to what agency nosotros accept employed. The want to last rich, or to appear to last rich, pervades all classes. The honey of money…has grown upon us to such a flat that all other avenues of distinction seem but trifling inwards comparing of those which atomic number 82 to the acquisition of money.    To last rich seems with many “the principal destination of man”.  Hence, no talents, no endowment of the mind, no science or knowledge, no amount of education, is appreciated only so far equally it volition pay…. This fact has operated greatly inwards retarding the literary progress of our youth….   <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION    </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> Another displace of our adversity may last seen inwards the unjustifiable extravagance inwards which nosotros indulge; inwards that luxury of expenditure for houses, for dress, for furniture, for food, constantly made the reprehensible remark yesteryear thinking foreigners.  We are inwards dreadful mistake inwards regard to our country, if nosotros suppose nosotros are really prosperous. Our prosperity is non real; it is false; it is fictitious.  The prosperity of a nation is existent when the springs of the prosperity are contained inside itself, inwards the hands of its citizens; when it depends for its beingness upon its ain resources; when it is independent.  But this is non the illustration inwards Liberia.  We are, equally a nation, upheld yesteryear foreigners. We are solely dependent upon foreigners for our schools, for churches, for preachers, for teachers.  Most of the talent of the solid reason is inwards the employ together with at the command of foreigners.  Those thus employed must ever concur their talents together with their efforts subservient, non to what they conceive to last the interests of their country, but to the desires together with direction of unusual employers…. What nosotros want to convey earlier our minds today is the humiliating fact, that nearly all the talent of Liberia—talent non inwards ordinary men, but inwards our principal men—is supported yesteryear unusual agency together with controlled yesteryear unusual influence.  And yet, inwards the seem upwards of these humbling realities, nosotros boast of our civilization, of our prosperity, of our independence, together with indulge inwards unjustifiable extravagance…    *     *     *    … the coin lavished upon houses, which add together zero to  wellness together with comfort; upon dress, which does non growth the dignity together with beauty of personal appearance; the large sums seat out inwards expensive furniture, … the neat amount consumed inwards the luxuries of the tabular array would move a neat way inwards keeping our streets clear of weeds, inwards felling the dense forests around us, inwards reclaiming the wilderness, inwards cultivating the soil, inwards civilizing our … brethren.    … Look at the numbers who … inwards lodge to advance to, or maintain this [extravagant] trend of living, flock to the fostering arms together with sheltering wings of these [foreign] societies.  Thus dis- honesty stalks abroad nether the semblance of piety; together with impiety assumes the appearance of religious belief for the sake of gain.  And … this extravagant mode of living…are made inwards the minds of many the criterion of respectability…we attach to a greater extent than importance to display than to reality.  There is real petty that is substantial nearly us…    *     *     *    …It is our duty to acquire that at that spot are other objects of infinitely greater importance than wealth inwards our rising country…A higher destiny is ours: our duty together with privilege is the laying of the foundation of hereafter empires inwards Africa…    … It is our duty to curtail our superfluous expenditures.  There should last retrenchment of our expenditures for fantabulous edifices….Let our surplus agency last beneficially expended; permit it last vested inwards the improvement of our country, inwards placing our prosperity upon a safer together with to a greater extent than permanent foundation—in rendering ourselves independent…    … It is our duty to labor.  We dwell inwards a solid reason rich inwards resources, which with petty exertion tin give the axe last called forth inwards sufficient diverseness together with abundance to homecoming us comfortable together with independent. But at that spot is a fatal lack of productive manufacture with us…. The commerce of the solid reason has e'er been inwards such articles equally our citizens accept had no business office inwards producing; thence nosotros acquire wealth from this origin without helping to exercise it.  We buy the palm crude oil together with camwood together with ivory from the natives giving them inwards central articles of unusual production …. The prosperity arising from our commerce is almost equally evanescent equally that based on missionary appropriations.  Foreigners on the 1 hand, together with the natives on the other, are our supporters.    *     *     *    … nosotros must either abandon our province of utter dependency upon foreigners, yesteryear creating the agency of supplying our ain wants, or relinquish our profession of freedom equally a nation.  H5N1 province of dependency is solely incongruous with a province of liberty….    …The…rich together with fertile soil…invites us to its cultivation. Nothing should last allowed to interfere betwixt us together with the soil… </div> <br /> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div>

Edward Wilmot Blyden On Liberia

Edward Wilmot Blyden (b. 8/3/1832 - d. 2/7/1912) On August 3,1832, Edward Wilmot Blyden was born inwards Saint Thomas,...

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