George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams potently believed that every man, woman and child had rights - no matter the coloration of their skin. Although he was something of a check artist, he believed that it was his obligation to enunciate out when he precept that those rights had been taken away from others through an abuse of power. During a excite to the Congo, Williams learned that the human rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His outrage at this behavior led him to preserve a lengthy grant Letter describing the deplorable touch in the Congo. Williams sense of responsibility led him to become the scratch line the Statesn or European to publicly denounce the intervention of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an African-American with minuscule education. Williams was born in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the 41st U.S. Colored man of the Union Army. He fought in several battles and was wounded in combat. Soon after, he enlisted in the army of th e Republic of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He left the army the close year, and then he analyze briefly at Howard University. Williams hook up with and became pastor of the Twelfth Baptist church service the year he have from the seminary. He then move to Washington, D.C. and founded a national gloomy newspaper, the Commoner, after only a year as a minister.\nNext, Williams wrote a book, History of the blackamoor Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, together with a anterior consideration of the Unity of the kind Family and historical Sketch of Africa and an banknote of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia, which was publish in two volumes. Williams intercommunicate veterans groups, fraternal organizations, and church congregations date traveling the lecture circuit. He floated through other professions and neer seemed to have enough money.\nWilliams became kindle in Leop olds Congo when he met a gen...