Free Political Prisoner Richard Maroon Shoats--40 years down in American gulag

Richard Shoats, Jr. and Marvin X, Philadelphia, PA 2012 photo Nisa Ra

Demand President Obama give a general amnesty to all political prisoners and prisoners in general, unjustly arrested, tried and convicted, 2.4 million in world's largest prison house, America!

How many of the 1% Wall Street criminals who ro

bbed the world have gone to prison one day? American prisons are full of drug addicted, mentally ill and economically depressed black, brown and poor whites, men and women, many if not most lacked proper legal representation at the time of their arrests.

--Marvin X

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Abdullah, Haki Malik (s/n Michael Green) # C-56123 PO Box 3456, Corcoran, CA 93212 Abu-Jamal, Mumia #AM 8335 SCI-Mahanoy, 301 Morea Rd., Frackville, PA 17932Birthday: April 24, 1954 Acoli, Sundiata (Squire) #39794-066 FCI Cumberland, P.O. Box 1000, Cumberland, MD 21501 Birthday: January 14, 1937 Africa, Charles Simms #AM4975 SCI Retreat, 660 State Route 11, Hunlock Creek, PA 18621 Birthday: April 7, 1956 Africa, Debbie Sims #006307 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 Birthday: August 4, 1956 Africa, Delbert Orr #AM4985 SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612 Birthday: April 7 Africa, Edward Goodman #AM4974 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932 Birthday: October 21, 1949 Africa, Janet Holloway #006308 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 Birthday: April 13, 1951 Africa, Janine Phillips #006309 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403-1238 Birthday: April 25, 1956 Africa, Michael Davis #AM4973 SCI Graterford, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426-0244 Birthday: October 6, 1955 Africa, William Phillips #AM4984 SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612 Birthday: May 12, 1956Al-Amin, Jamil Abdullah # 99974-555USP Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO  81226Birthday: October 4, 1943 Azania, Zolo #4969 Indiana State Prison, 1 Park Row, Michigan City, IN 46360 Birthday: December 12, 1954 Bell, Herman #79C0262 Great Meadow Correctional Facility 11739 State Route 22, P.O. Box 51, Comstock, NY 12821-0051 Birthday: January 14, 1948Bomani Sababu, Kojo (Grailing Brown) #39384-066 USP Allenwood, P.O.Box 3000, White Deer, PA 17887 Bottom, Anthony Jalil #77A4283 Attica Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 149, Attica NY 14011-0149Birthday: October 18, 1951 Bowen, Joseph AM-4272, 1 Kelley Drive, Coal Township, PA 17866-1021 Birthday: January 15, 1948 Bowers, Veronza #35316-136 USP Atlanta, P.O. Box 150160, Atlanta, GA 30315 Birthday: February 4 Burton, Fred "Muhammad" AF 3896 SCI Somerset, 1590 Walters Mill Rd, Somerset, PA 15510 Birthday: December 15, 1946 Campa, Rubén #58733-004 (envelope addessed to Rubén Campa, letter addressed to Fernando Gonzáles) F.C.I. Safford, P.O. Box 9000, Safford, AZ 85548 Birthday: August 18, 1963 Chubbuck, Byron Shane (Oso Blanco) #07909-051 USP Lewisburg, PO Box 1000, Lewisburg, PA 17837 Birthday: February 26, 1967 Conway, Marshall Eddie #116469 Jessup Correctional Institution, P.O. Box 534, Jessup, MD 20794 Birthday: April 23, 1946 Dunne, Bill #10916-086 USP Pollock, P.O. Box 2099, Pollock, LA  71467 Birthday: August 3 Fitzgerald, Romaine “Chip” #B-27527 Kern Valley State Prison, A-5-110 P.O. Box 5101, Delano, California 93216 http://www.freechip.org/  Birthday: April 11, 1949 Ford, Patrice Lumumba #96639-011 USP Pollock, P.O. Box 2099, Pollock, LA 71467 Gilbert, David #83A6158 Auburn Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 618, Auburn, NY 13021-0618 Birthday: October 6, 1944 González Claudio, Avelino #09873-000 FCI Ashland, P.O. Box 6001, Ashland, KY 41105 Gonzalez Claudio, Norberto #09864-000 Unit G Room 15 DWWDF 950 High St. Central Fall, RI 02863  Birthday: May 27, 1945 Guerrero, Antonio #58741-004 FCI Marianna, P.O. Box 7007, Marianna, FL 32447 Birthday: October 18, 1958 Hayes, Robert Seth #74-A-2280 Sullivan Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 116, Fallsburg, NY 12733-0116 Birthday: October 15, 1948 Hernández, Alvaro Luna #255735 Hughes Unit, Rt. 2, Box 4400, Gatesville, TX 76597 Birthday: May 12, 1952 Hernández, Gerardo #58739-004 USP Victorville, P.O. Box 5300, Adelanto, CA 92301 Birthday: June 4, 1965 Hilton, Freddie (Kamau Sadiki) #0001150688 Augusta State Medical Prison, Bldg 23A-2 3001 Gordon Highway, Grovetown, GA 30813 Birthday: February 19 Hoover, Larry #86063-024 Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226 Birthday: November 30, 1950 Ka'bah, Abdullah Malik (aka Jeff Fort) #92298-024 USP Florence ADMAX, P.O. Box 8500, Florence, CO 81226 Birthday: February 20, 1947 Kambui, Sekou (William Turk) #113058 Bibb County Correctional Facility Unit-E3-46A 565 Bibb Lane, Brent, Al 35034 Birthday: September 6, 1948 Khabir, Maumin (aka Melvin Mayes) #09891-000 MCFP Springfield, P.O. Box 4000, Springfield, MO 65801 Birthday: September 15 Koti, Mohamman Geuka 80-A-0808 Mohawk Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 8451, Rome, New York 13440-8451 Birthday: October 11, 1926 Laaman, Jaan Karl #10372-016 USP Tucson, P.O. Box 24550, Tucson, AZ  85734 Birthday: March 21, 1948 Lake, Richard Mafundi #079972 Donaldson CF, 100 Warrior Lane, Bessemer, AL 35023-7299 Langa, Mondo We (David Rice) #27768, Nebraska State Penitentiary, P.O. Box 2500, Lincoln, NE 68542 Birthday: May 21, 1947 Latine, Maliki Shakur # 81-A-4469 Clinton Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora, NY 12929 López Rivera, Oscar #87651-024 FCI Terre Haute, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808 Birthday: January 6, 1943 Magee, Ruchell Cinque # A92051 C-2 107L CSATF/State Prison at Corcoran P.O Box 5242, Corcoran, CA 93212 Majid, Abdul (Anthony Laborde) #83-A-0483 Elmira Correctional Facility PO Box 500, 1879 Davis St, Elmira, New York 14902-0500 Birthday: June 25, 1949 Manning, Thomas #10373-016 FMC Butner, P.O. Box 1600, Butner, NC  27509 Birthday: June 28, 1946 Mason, Marie Jeanette #04672-061 FMC Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127 Birthday: January 26, 1962 McDavid, Eric #16209-097 FCI Terminal Island, P.O. Box 3007, San Pedro, CA  90731 Birthday: October 7 McGowan, Daniel #63794-053 FCI Terre Haute - CMU, P.O. Box 33, Terre Haute, Indiana 47408 Birthday: May 2, 1974 Medina, Luís #58734-004 (envelope is addressed to Luis Medina, letter to Ramón Labañino)FCI Jesup, 2680 301 South, Jesup, GA  31599 Birthday: June 9, 1963 Odinga, Sekou #09A3775 Clinton Correctional Facility, P.O. Box 2001, Dannemora, NY 12929 Birthday: June 17, 1944 Peltier, Leonard #89637-132 USP Coleman I, P.O. Box 1033, Coleman, Fl 33521 Birthday: September 12, 1944 Pinell, Hugo "Dahariki" # A88401 SHU D3-221, P.O. Box 7500, Crescent City, CA 95531-7500 Birthday: March 10, 1945 Poindexter, Ed # 27767 Nebraska State Penitentiary, P.O. Box 2500, Lincoln, NE 68542 Birthday: November 1, 1944 Powell, Reverend Joy #07G0632 Bedford Hills CF, P.O. Box 1000, Bedford Hills, NY 10507-2499 Rodríguez, Luis V. # C33000 Kern Valley State Prison (AD_SEG), (B1-205), P.O. Box 5102, Delano, CA 93216 Shabazz Bey, Hanif (Beaumont Gereau) Golden Grove Prison, RR1, P.O. Box 9955, Kingshill, St. Croix, V.I. 00850 Birthday: August 16, 1950 Shakur, Mutulu #83205-012 Federal Correctional Complex, P.O. Box 3900, Adelanto, CA  92301 Birthday: August 8, 1950 Shoats, Russell Maroon #AF-3855 SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370 Birthday: August 23, 1943 Stewart, Lynne #53504-054 FMC Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127 Birthday: October 8 Tyler, Gary # 84156 Louisiana State Penitentiary, ASH-4, Angola LA 70712 Wallace, Herman #76759 Elayn Hunt Correctional Center, CCR-B-#6, P.O. Box 174, St Gabriel LA 70776 Birthday: October 13, 1941 Watson, Gary #098990 Unit SHU17, Delaware Correctional Center, 1181 Paddock Road, Smyrna, DE 19977Woodfox, Albert #72148 David Wade Correctional Center, N1A 670 Bell Hill Rd., Homer, LA 71040 Birthday: February 19, 1947 National Jericho Movement • P.O. Box 2164 • Chesterfield, Virginia 23832

Marvin X's Revolution on the Rocks Book Tour 2012

BOOK MARVIN X FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

 FEBRUARY, 2013

HE'S LIVING BLACK HISTORY

NATION OF ISLAM, BLACK PANTHERS, BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT, BLACK STUDIES

"Marvin X is still the undisputed king of black consciousness!"

--Dr. Nathan Hare, the Black Think Tank

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Marvin X's Revolution on the Rocks Book Tour 2012

Tuesday, Sept 18

Africana Studies Department, University of Houston

Thursday, Sept 20
Elders Institute of Wisdom, SHAPE Community Center, 11:30am
Friday, Sept 21
Texas Southern University, School of Business
Saturday, Sept 22
Secret Word Cafe, 9pm
Sunday, Sept 23
Third World Imports, 2-4pm

October 6

Kings Day at Oyutunji African Village, Sheldon, SC

October 25

Brecht Forum, Manhattan, New York

October 28

Joins Amiri and Amina Baraka at the Blue Mirror, Newark NJ

November 1

Thursday, 6-8pm, Sankofa Books, 2714 Georgia Avenue, NW, Wash DC

November 2-4

Black Power to Hip Hop Conference, Howard University, Wash DC

November 4

Sunday, 7pm, Umoja House, 2015 Bunker Hill Rd., NE, Wash DC

November 9          

Friday, 7pm, Moonstone Art Center, 110 South 13th Street, Philadelphia PA

November 16        

Friday, 3pm, Black and Nobel Books, 1411 West Erie Ave., Philadelphia

November 17

Saturday, 4-6pm, Black Power Babies, Restoration Plaza, Skylight Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

November 25

The Free Market Place, 905 Atlantic Ave., Brooklyn

November 26

Interview with PBS

Marvin X is Plato Teaching on Oakland’s Streets

By Ishmael Reed

Marvin X is not only a terrific writer but a Black Power historian…. However, if I had to pin down the influences upon Marvin X’s, “The Wisdom of Plato Negro, Parables/Fables,” I would cite the style of Yoruba texts: texts in the Yoruba language reveal that didacticism is a key component of the Yoruba story telling style.

Africans use proverbs to teach their children the lessons of life. Marvin X acknowledges the Yoruba influence on his book. He imparts wisdom by employing cautionary tales and uses his own life and mistakes to consul the young to avoid mistakes.

Moreover, unlike some of the books written by popular African American writers, his book does not look backward to the period of slavery, though some of that is here. He writes about the contemporary problems of a community under attack.

He blames crack for causing “ a great chasm between adults and children, children who were abandoned, abused, and neglected, emotionally starved and traumatized.”

Marvin X exposes the situation of other ethnic groups invading Black neighborhoods and making the lion’s share of profits from vice, while the media focus upon the mules of the operation, the pathetic and disgusting pimps, the drug dealers who are killing each other over profits that are piddling next to the great haul made by the suppliers of the guns and the drugs.

Don’t expect the local newspapers to cover this end of the distribution.
In the “Parable of the Donkey,” Marvin X writes: “ The so-called Negro is the donkey of the world, everybody rides him to success. If you need a free ride to success, jump on the Negro’s back and ride into the sunset. He will welcome you with open arms.
“No saddle needed, just jump on his back and ride him to the bank.”

When you learn that the government ignored the dumping of drugs into our neighborhoods by their anti-communist allies, you can understand the meaning of Marvin X’s words. Not only are invading ethnic groups and white gun suppliers benefitting from using the Black neighborhoods as a resource but the government as well.

In  “Parable of the Parrot,” Marvin X also takes aim at the Dream Team academics who “parrot” the line coming down from the One Percent that the problems of Blacks are self-inflicted.

“The state academics and intellectuals joined loudly in parroting the king’s every wish. Thank God the masses do not hear them pontificate or read their books. After all, these intellectual and academic parrots are well paid, tenured and eat much parrot seed. Their magic song impresses the bourgeoisie who have a vested interest in keeping the song of the parrot alive.”

Marvin X’s answer to this intellectual Vichy regime has been to cultivate off campus intellectuals by conducting an open air classroom (Academy of da Corner) on 14th and Broadway, downtown Oakland, which is how the peripatetic philosophers like Plato used to impart their knowledge in open air academies.

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Ishmael Reed is the author of “Going Too Far, Essays About America’s Nervous Breakdown.” 

CONTACT MARVIN X @ (510) 200-4164

EMAIL: jmarvinx@yahoo.com

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Nation Time for North American Africans!

For thousands of years, Black People in Africa had enjoyed Freedom, Independence, Self-Government and Self-Determination. When Black People came to the Americas as adventurers and explorers and established settlements here, they maintained their love for freedom, independence, self-government and self-determination. And, when Black People were brought to this land as slaves, Our most powerful motive was to regain Our freedom, independence, self-government and self-determination. From day one, Black People rebelled and sought a way-of-life that was more rewarding and beneficial to Us. We did so in 1526 by rebelling against the Spaniards in South Carolina and running to the Indians, who helped Us drive the Spanish away and experience the self-governing process again. Thus began Our quest to establish a Black nation, a REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRIKA, in North America.
To the Black People who were forced to come to this land, Black Nationalism was a top priority. Self-government was what Blacks wanted more than anything else. Between 1850 and 1860, Blacks became more daring in their determination to rule themselves. For 250 years they had expressed their nationalistic desires by rebelling against whites, terrorizing whites and establishing camps that were governed by Black People.

Throughout the Civil War Black People demonstrated a preference for self-government by taking every opportunity available to govern themselves. Black People flocked in large numbers to areas where northern armies had won battles, and confronted the military officers with situations that could only be controlled if immediate governments were established. Black People would have to to run those governments, and had a right to. In 1864, Special Field Order #15 set aside for Black People a stretch of land from Charleston, S.C. to the country bordering the St. John's River in Florida. In this area, the official order read, "no white person whatsoever, unless military officers and soldiers detained for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs [of government] will be left to the free people [Black People] themselves." Similar centers were established in Mississippi, where more than 70,000 Blacks established governments where all property was under Black government and control, and where all Black residents had the inalienable right to liberty. With such settlements as these, on land from South Carolina to Florida and Mississippi that had been declared Ours, We, Black People, settled down to manage Our affairs [and did a good job]." We wanted to continue managing Our affairs, too. For this reason We resisted efforts made later on by the federal government to take away Our land and oftentimes only gave it up after We had been defeated in battle by army troops.

In the late 1960s, a convention of Black delegates met in Detroit, Michigan and proclaimed that Black People in the United States were in fact a Nation of People separate from the American people. This convention of delegates, including Imari Obadele (who was later elected president of the Black Nation) gave that Nation of People a name, the Republic of New Afrika. The Republic of New Afrika took the concept of Black Nationalism to its ultimate stage when, in 1968, it declared Black People to be free and independent of the United States government.

The Republic of New Afrika declared Black People's independence because it "believes that Black People in Amerikkka make up a nation of people, a people separate and apart from the Amerikkkan people. The RNA also believes that as a nation of people, We are entitled to all of the rights of a nation, including the right to land and self-determination. The RNA further believes that all the land in Amerikkka, upon which Black People have lived for a long time, worked and made rich as slaves, and fought to survive on is land that belongs to Us as a People, and it is land We must gain control of because, as Malcolm X said, land is the basis of independence, freedom, justice and equality. We cannot talk about self-determination without discussing it within the context of land. Therefore, the RNA [identified the five states of Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina as Black People's land and] believes that gaining control of Our land is the fundamental struggle facing Black People. Without land, Black Power, rights and freedom have no substance.

We know after 400 years of free and nearly free labor, North American Africans have the human and divine right to self determination and sovereignty. We have the same rights as others in American to declare or total freedom from the USA. If American states and citizens can declare themselves independent of the US government, then certainly we have the right to do so. As Ron Paul is saying below, "This country was born through secession. Some felt it was treasonous to secede from England, but those traitors became our greatest patriots." 

In our case, we were not allowed the right of self-determination. The 14th amendment forced US citizenship upon us, we had no say in the matter, thus we went from chattel slaves to wage slaves which is our condition at this hour. We are very much like the Palestinians, under occupation by a foreign power that has no right whatsoever to maintain occupation of our cities, subjecting us to apartheid stop and frisk laws and incarceration rates that are the highest in the world, yet because we have a white man in black face as President, we are supposed to drink the poison Kool Aid without question, in fact, be glad about it. 

While reparations are fine, national independence is the ultimate goal, and this means a land of our own, perhaps similar to how Pakistan was carved out of India when it was clear Muslims needed their own nation at the fall of the British empire. We are now at the fall of the American empire, so get ready for the break up, just as the USSR cracked apart. We agree with Ron Paul:

“At what point should the people dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an increasingly tyrannical and oppressive federal government?”.

He added: “And if people or states are not free to leave the United States as a last resort, can they really think of themselves as free? If a people cannot secede from an oppressive government, they cannot truly be considered free.”

--Marvin X

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(Politico) – Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) said Monday that secession was a “deeply American principle,” amid a growing number of people petitioning the White House to let their states secede from the U.S.

“Secession is a deeply American principle. This country was born through secession. Some felt it was treasonous to secede from England, but those ‘traitors’ became our country’s greatest patriots,” the former presidential candidate wrote in a post on his House website. “There is nothing treasonous or unpatriotic about wanting a federal government that is more responsive to the people it represents.”

He continued: “If the possibility of secession is completely off the table there is nothing to stop the federal government from continuing to encroach on our liberties and no recourse for those who are sick and tired of it.”

Since President Barack Obama was reelected earlier this month, a flurry of secession petitions from states were created — most notably from Texas, which with more than 115,000 signatures far exceeds the 25,000 signatures needed for an official White House response. Critics have said it’s disgruntled voters upset that former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost.

Paul wrote that secession must still be an option to be used as leverage to make sure the government doesn’t “encroach” on Americans’ liberties.

“In fact, the recent election only further entrenched the status quo. If the possibility of secession is completely off the table there is nothing to stop the federal government from continuing to encroach on our liberties and no recourse for those who are sick and tired of it.”

Paul wrote that secession is a form of American freedom.

“At what point should the people dissolve the political bands which have connected them with an increasingly tyrannical and oppressive federal government?” Paul wrote.

He added: “And if people or states are not free to leave the United States as a last resort, can they really think of themselves as free? If a people cannot secede from an oppressive government, they cannot truly be considered free.”

Free the land! No justice, no peace! America is the Black man's battleground!

ChickenBones: A Journal for  Literary & Artistic African-American  Themes

Books on the Negro and Georgia Chronology of African-American History by Alton Hornsby, Jr. and the Encyclopedia of Georgia by Somerset Publishers, Inc. *   *   *   *   * Special Field Orders, No. 15 Reparations  for Freed Slaves " Forty-Acres & a Mule" By William T. Sherman General William T. Sherman issued the following Special Field Orders, No. 15 in 1865 after meeting with the black clergy Savannah to discuss the future of former slaves after emancipation: 1. The islands from Charleston south, the abandoned rice-fields along the rivers for thirty miles back from the sea, and the country bordering the St. John's River, Florida, are reserved and set apart for the settlement of the negroes now made free by the acts of war and the proclamation of the President of the United States. 2. At Beaufort, Hilton Head, Savannah, Fernandina, St. Augustine, and Jacksonville, the blacks may remain in their chosen or accustomed vocations; but on the islands, and in the settlements hereafter to be established, no white person whatever, unless military officers and soldiers detailed for duty, will be permitted to reside; and the sole and exclusive management of affairs will be left to the freed people themselves, subject only to the United States military authority, and the acts of Congress. By the laws of war, and orders of the President of the United States, the negro is free, and must be dealt with as such. He cannot be subjected to conscription, or forced military service, save by the written orders of the United States military authority, and the acts of Congress. By the laws of war, and orders of the President of the United States, the negro is free, and must be dealt with as such. He cannot be subjected to conscription, or forced military service, save by the written orders of the highest military authority of the department, under such regulations as the President or Congress may prescribe. Domestic servants, blacksmiths, carpenters, and other mechanics, will be free to select their own work and residence, but the young and able-bodied negroes must be encouraged to enlist as soldiers in the service of the United States, to contribute their share toward maintaining their own freedom, and securing their rights as citizens of the United States. Negroes so enlisted will be organized into companies, battalions, and regiments, under the orders of the United States military authorities, and regiments under the orders of the United States military authorities, and will be paid, fed, clothed, according to the law. The bounties paid on enlistment may, with the consent of the recruit, go to assist his family and settlement in procuring agricultural implements, seed, tools, boots, clothing, and other articles necessary for their livelihood. 3. Whenever three respectable negroes, heads of families, shall desire to settle on land, and shall have selected for that purpose an island or a locality clearly defined within the limits above designated, the Inspector of Settlements and Plantations will himself, or by such subordinate officer as he may appoint, give them a license to settle such island or district, and afford them such assistance as he can to enable them to establish a peaceable agricultural settlement. The three parties named will subdivide the land, under the supervision of the inspector, among themselves, and such others as may choose to settle near them, so that each family shall have a plot of not more than forty acres of tillable ground, and, when it borders on some water channel, with not more than eight hundred feet water-front, in the possession of which land the military authorities will afford them protection until such time as they can protect themselves or until Congress shall regulate their title. The quartermaster may, on the requisition of the Inspector of Settlements and Plantations, place at the disposal of the inspector one or more of the captured steamers to ply between the settlements and one or more of the commercial points heretofore named, in order to afford the settlers the opportunity to supply their necessary wants, and to sell the products of their land and labor. 4. Whenever a negro has enlisted in the military service of the United States, he may locate his family in any one of the settlements at pleasure, and acquire a homestead, and all other rights and privileges of a settler, as though present in person. In like manner, negroes may settle their families and engage on board the gunboats, or in fishing, or in the navigation of the inland waters, without losing any claim to land or other advantages derived from this system. But no one, unless an actual settler as above defined, or unless absent on Government service, will be entitled to claim any right to land or property in any settlement by virtue of these orders. 5. In order to carry out this system of settlement, a general officer will be detailed as Inspector of Settlements and Plantations, whose duty it shall be to visit the settlements, to regulate their police and general arrangement, and who will furnish personally to each head of a family, subject to the approval of the President of the United States, a possessory title in writing, giving as near as possible the description of boundaries; and who shall adjust all claims or conflicts that may arise under the same, subject to the like approval, treating such titles altogether as possessory. The same general officer will also be charged with the enlistment and organization of the negro recruits, and protecting their interests while absent from their settlements; and will be governed by the rules and regulations prescribed by the War Department for such purposes. 6. Brigadier-General R. Saxton is hereby appointed Inspector of Settlements and plantations, and will at once enter on the performance of his duties. No change is intended or desired in the settlement now on Beaufort Island, nor will any rights to property heretofore acquired be affected thereby. By order of Major-General W.T. Sherman Savannah, Georgia January 16, 1865 *   *   *   *   * TimeLine 1733: Arrival The first Georgia colonists arrive in Savannah to lay out a debtors colony; among them are African servants and slaves. 1749: Official enslavement Although the trustees who organized the settlement restricted slavery to prevent greed and laziness among the settlers, many smuggled in slaves and pushed for greater land ownership. By 1749 the ban was repealed and the number of African slaves would soon near, and at times outnumber, the number of settlers. 1865: Slavery abolished Following the Union Army's defeat of the Confederacy, the state reluctantly agreed to emancipate slaves as part of an agreement to restore them to the union. 1867: Reconstructing lives Bitter Georgians refused to ratify the 14th Amendment giving blacks full citizenship in 1867, and the state was placed under military rule. As a result, the state had its officials forced upon it by outside military appointment. In the election of 1868 a new constitution was adopted and 32 blacks were elected to the state legislature. Land ownership programs had been established to ease the transition from slavery to freedom and many blacks looked forward to a progressive future. 1868: Deconstruction of reconstruction Racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan were organized to combat black political and economic progress. In September 1868 the white legislative majority expelled the blacks from office. Eventually, the brief period of black advancement was erased and violence and legislation was used to segregate the races, subjugate blacks and maintain economic and political power among white affluent classes. 1932-1940: Great migration Southern blacks began moving to Northern cities in search of social and economic opportunities and relief from racial oppression and agricultural life in the South. 1985-present: Homecoming The rise in cultural awareness prompted many African Americans to return to their Low country southern roots to explore their Gullah and Geechee culture. Source: Chronology of African-American History by Alton Hornsby, Jr. and the Encyclopedia of Georgia by Somerset Publishers, Inc. Few, Jenel. "Black History Month Feature: Living with or without 40 acres and a mule." Savannah Morning News. Web Posted, February 21, 2000 . Higher education reporter Jenel Few can be reached at 652-0325 posted 2 November 2007

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Family Fun at the Free Marketplace, Brooklyn this weekend

FAMILY FUN AT THE FREE MARKETPLACE FREE FAMILY ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE - THE FREE MARKETPLACE THIS WEEKEND FREE FAMILY FUN ACTIVITIES THIS HOLIDAY WEEKEND The Free Marketplace will launch this Sunday, 11/25/12 in Brooklyn. It is a monthly indoor artisan market and the first market of its kind with a section dedicated to children and families featuring kid friendly gear, goods, treats, crafts, stroller parking, and activities such as art projects led byWeeCreate BK, yoga courtesy of Sacred, and complimentary organic goodies provided by Happy Family Brands. The market's main room will host curated vendors, live music courtesy of actor Adrian Grenier’s Wreckroom Records, creative workshops, a wellness lounge with massage and community acupuncture! 11am - 6pm FREECANDY 905 Atlantic Avenue, 2nd fl (bet St. James & Grand Ave) Brooklyn, NY 11238 Family Room Schedule All Workshops are free but you must register as space is limited. Send email with Workshop and number of kids you’d like to register to thefreemarketplace@gmail.com 11:30            Kid’s Yoga Workshop* – presented by Sacred (must bring your own mat) 12:30            Storytime with author Melanie Hope Greenberg 1:00            Creative Art Workshop – presented by WeeCreate BK 2:00            Happy Family Brands Healthy Food demonstration 3:00            Storytime w/ author Melanie Hope Greenberg 4:00            Kids Craft Workshop – presented by Prosperity Unlimited 5:00            Happy Family Brands Healthy Food demonstration Main Room Schedule All Workshops are free but you must register as space is limited.  Massage and Community acupuncture are first come first serve basis. 11:30                      Adult Yoga presented by Sacred (must bring your own mat) 1:00                        Live Music presented by WRECKROOM Records 2:00                        Screenprinting Workshop presented by Philadelphia Printworks (bring a tee) 3:00                        Live Music presented by WRECKROOM Records 4:00                        Frank White Awards 5:00                        DJ presented by WRECKROOM Records WANT TO VEND, PARTNER, SPONSOR? thefreemarketplace@gmail.com Media inquiries, contact: Sun in Leo PR | 718 496 2305 |prgirl@suninleo.com NOVEMBER 2012 25 GET MORE INFO FOLLOW ON TWITTER FRIEND ON FACEBOOK FORWARD TO A FRIEND