George Washington Williams

George cap Williams strongly believed that every man, charr and child had rights - no thing the color of their skin. Although he was something of a con artist, he believed that it was his certificate of indebtedness to speak out when he saw that those rights had been taken extraneous from separates through an abuse of power. During a trip to the congo, Williams learned that the compassionate rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His deprave at this behavior direct him to write a leng thereforeed Open Letter describing the ugly situation in the Congo. Williams smell out of responsibility led him to fabricate the first American or European to publicly label the treatment of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an African-American with little education. Williams was born in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the 41st U.S. colour Troops of the Union Army. He fought in several battles and was weakened in combat. Soon after, he enlisted in the sol diery of the nation of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He left the army the next year, and then he studied briefly at Howard University. Williams married and became pastor of the duodecimal Baptist Church the year he graduated from the seminary. He then moved to Washington, D.C. and founded a matter black newspaper, the Commoner, after exactly a year as a minister.\nNext, Williams wrote a book, narrative of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, together with a preliminary consideration of the consistency of the Human Family and historical cogitation of Africa and an Account of the Negro Governments of sierra Leone and Liberia, which was published in dickens volumes. Williams addressed veterans groups, fraternal organizations, and perform congregations while traveling the masticate circuit. He floated through other professions and never seemed to have teeming money.\nWilliams became i nterested in Leopolds Congo when he met a gen...