George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams strongly believed that both man, woman and child had rights - no matter the color of their skin. Although he was something of a con artist, he believed that it was his responsibility to speak off when he saw that those rights had been interpreted away from others by dint of an sophisticate of power. During a trip to the congo, Williams well-educated that the human rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His outrage at this bearing lead him to write a lengthy Open letter describing the deplorable situation in the Congo. Williams sense of responsibility led him to become the first American or European to publicly denounce the treatment of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an African-American with little education. Williams was innate(p) in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the forty-first U.S. Colored Troops of the aggregate forces. He fought in some(prenominal) battles and was wounded in combat. in brief later on, he enlisted in the forces of the Republic of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He left(a) the army the next course, and therefore he studied in short at Howard University. Williams married and became rector of the Twelfth Baptist Church the stratum he graduated from the seminary. He then moved to Washington, D.C. and founded a national black newspaper, the Commoner, after only a year as a minister.\nNext, Williams wrote a book, History of the pitch blackness slipstream in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, in concert with a preliminary stipulation of the Unity of the Human Family and diachronic Sketch of Africa and an Account of the Negro Governments of Sierra Leone and Liberia, which was published in two volumes. Williams addressed veterans groups, biovular organizations, and church congregations while change of location the lecture circuit. He floated through other professions and never seemed to clear enough money.\nWilliams became interested in Leopolds Congo when he met a gen...