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By Olaudah Equiano
In an adventurous and amazing lifestyles, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic international, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the us to Britain, both as a slave or combating with the Royal army. His account of his lifestyles is not just one of many nice records of the abolition circulation, but in addition a startling, relocating tale of probability and betrayal. nice trips permits readers to commute either round the planet and again during the centuries – but in addition again into rules and worlds scary, ruthless and vicious in numerous methods from our personal. Few examining stories can start to fit that of attractive with writers who observed excellent issues: nice civilisations, partitions of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and plants new to technological know-how. examining those books is to work out the area afresh, to rediscover a time whilst many cultures have been particularly unusual to one another, the place legends and tales have been handled as evidence and within which quite a bit used to be nonetheless to be came upon.
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In point of exciting interest these engagements were not comparable to an incident which occurred within the command itself. While in camp at Galesteo, New Mexico, a second lieutenant with Troop C shot and killed two enlisted men of this company and was disarmed by Sergeant Shropshire, who by his great coolness and self-possession, prevented a mutiny and saved the officer from instant death. In those days on the frontier little was thought of taking human life and this officer seems to have been particularly handy on the trigger.
A. S. , Fort McIntosh, Texas; HORACE W. S. , Fort Sam Houston, Texas Introduction by RICHARD N. O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80644 All rights reserved. The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College. S. Cavalry / by Herschel V.
F. TENNYSON NEELY, PUBLISHER, LONDON. NEW YORK. CHICAGO. Copyright, 1899 by CASHIN AND ANDERSON. Page 3 PREFACE. CONTEMPLATING the great inequalities of men, the tendency of the average historian to either entirely ignore or very grudgingly acknowledge the courage, valor, and patriotism of a so-called alien race, in their efforts to court the favor and patronage of the influential and popular; appreciating the fact that some men are almost imperceptibly raised to the very summit of human glory without apparent effort on their part, while others are depressed to the lowest level of humiliation; some have powerful and brilliant intellects, while others slowly drag out a miserable existence of imbecility and helplessness; some enjoy perfect health and are happy, while others are afflicted from their birth with every ill that flesh is heir to; some are made rich by a sudden turn of fortune, while others are doomed to a life of dire poverty and distress; and that some classes and races meet special impedimentspeculiar obstructions to fame, justice and progress; because of the fact that the Negro race belongs to such a class and is already the subject of slight, parsimonious notice in the histories which were largely made by its deeds of valor, this work is presented to the reading public.