'George Washington Williams'

'George Washington Williams strongly believed that every man, charwoman and child had rights - no matter the intensity of their skin. Although he was something of a con artist, he believed that it was his responsibility to verbalise out when he saw that those rights had been interpreted away from former(a)s by an abuse of power. During a trip to the congou, Williams lettered that the human rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His scandalization at this conduct guide him to keep a protracted Open garner describing the deplorable berth in the Congo. Williams brain of responsibility led him to become the showtime the Statesn or European to in public denounce the treatment of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an Afro-American with little education. Williams was natural in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the forty-first U.S. Colored force of the Union Army. He fought in some(prenominal) battles and was wounded in combat. Soon after, he enlisted in the armament of the Republic of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He left(p) the army the neighboring form, and so he studied short at Howard University. Williams conjoin and became pastor of the ordinal Baptist Church the course of instruction he gradatory from the seminary. He then moved to Washington, D.C. and founded a national non-white newspaper, the Commoner, after barely a year as a minister.\nNext, Williams wrote a book, tarradiddle of the Negro hotfoot in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, unneurotic with a explorative consideration of the angiotensin-converting enzyme of the Human Family and historic Sketch of Africa and an tale of the Negro Governments of sierra Leone and Liberia, which was published in two volumes. Williams communicate veterans groups, fraternal organizations, and perform congregations while locomotion the lecture circuit. He floated through other professions and never seemed to puddle enough money.\nWilliams became interest in Leopolds Congo when he met a gen... '