George Washington Williams

George Washington Williams strongly believed that any 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 pop out when he saw that those rights had been interpreted away from others by dint of an aversion of power. During a trip to the congou tea, Williams knowing that the human rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His outrage at this demeanour take him to write a lengthy Open garner describing the deplorable situation in the Congo. Williams sense of responsibility led him to become the first American or European to in public denounce the treatment of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an African-American with little education. Williams was natural in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the forty-first U.S. Colored Troops of the amalgamation armament. He fought in several(prenominal) battles and was wounded in combat. concisely by and by, he enlisted in the military of the Republic of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He left field the army the next course of study, and then(prenominal) he studied in short at Howard University. Williams married and became curate of the Twelfth Baptist Church the grade 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 inkiness feed in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, together with a preliminary consideration 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, brotherlike organizations, and church congregations while travel the lecture circuit. He floated through other professions and never seem ed to cave in enough money.\nWilliams became interested in Leopolds Congo when he met a gen...