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Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, but emptied himself (ekenōsen heauton), taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death ...
Michael G. Shiner (c. 1805–1880) was an African-American Navy Yard worker and diarist who chronicled events in Washington D.C. for more than 60 years, first as a slave and later as a free man.
1670) was a man from Angola who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia. Held as an "indentured servant" in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony. [1] He later became a tobacco farmer in the Province of Maryland. He attained great wealth after completing his term as an indentured ...
Enslaved as a young man by President James Madison during and after his White House years, Jennings published, in 1865, the first White House memoir. [1] His book was A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madison , described as "a singular document in the history of slavery and the early American republic."
Douglass begins by explaining that he does not know the date of his birth (in his third autobiography, he wrote, "I suppose myself to have been born in February 1817" [2] [3]), and that his mother died when he was 7 years old. He has very few memories of her (children were commonly separated from their mothers), only of the rare nighttime visit.
He introduced himself over the loudspeaker as “servant leader” and “captain of the ship”. “I’m responsible for the safety of my ship, my crew, my passengers, my cargo. But, above all ...
They shared food, looked out for each other’s kids, and helped out in a crisis — like when my father’s mother died when he was just 10 and neighbors stepped in like surrogate parents.
65-year-old quit his job and emptied his life savings to start a business — now he's worth $11 billion Tom Huddleston Jr., CNBC Updated July 15, 2024 at 6:46 PM