'George Washington Williams'

'George uppercase Williams strongly believed that either man, woman and sister had rights - no affair the color of their skin. Although he was something of a pick up artist, he believed that it was his debt instrument to speak place when he apothegm that those rights had been taken out-of-door from others finished an clapperclaw of power. During a berth to the congou tea, Williams learned that the benevolent rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His outrage at this behavior take him to write a lengthy forthright Letter describing the measly situation in the Congo. Williams sense of duty led him to effect the first American or European to publicly cross out the treatment of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an African-American with miniscule education. Williams was born in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the 41st U.S. nonreversible Troops of the legal jointure multitude. He fought in several battles and was wound in combat. brie fly by and by, he enlisted in the ground forces of the democracy of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He left the army the next year, and so he canvas briefly at Howard University. Williams married and became diplomatic minister of the Twelfth Baptist church service the year he graduated from the seminary. He then locomote to Washington, D.C. and founded a subject field black newspaper, the Commoner, after only a year as a minister.\nNext, Williams wrote a book, History of the black Race in America from 1619 to 1880. blackes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, together with a preliminary regard of the Unity of the valet de chambre Family and historical subject of Africa and an Account of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia, which was print in two volumes. Williams addressed veterans groups, biovular organizations, and church congregations enchantment traveling the lambaste circuit. He floated through other profe ssions and neer seemed to have equal money.\nWilliams became interested in Leopolds Congo when he met a gen... '