SAT., NOV. 8. 1975. THE CAROLINA TIMES-3
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PUSH STARS: A galaxy of superstars invaded Chicago recently to appear at a sensationally successful
S. R. O Push Benefit at the city's Orchestra Hall. Amid the glittering roster of celebrities and
performers were (L-R) Tony Bennett, RCA Records' Lena Horne and Zulema with PUSH President.
Jesse Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Barbara McNair, War, Ray Charles, Quincy
Jones and Wolfman Jack, among many others, helped to make the affair the huge success it was.
Historic OilesHoGDGS
by Elva P. DeJarmon
(Brief anecdotes of Negro History from BEFdRE THE
MAYFLOWER, by Lerone Bennett, Jr., and THE NEGRO EN
VIRGINIA, writers Program of WPS in Virginia, Hampton Institute
Sponsored).
1661
Virginia councile passed a fateful act. Legislation was directed
at the white servant class but a casual phrase gave legal status to
the lifetime enslavement of freedom-seeking Negroes. The act
seemed to imply general acceptance of slavery as the Negroes
penalty for running away and a hesitancy to define the status of
black men and women. In 1662, the general assembly was more
definite. It said that the child of an Englishman and a Negro
woman borne in this country shall be held bond or free only '
according to the condition of the mother. (The common law of
England gave a child the status of the father). In spite of the
penalties, some white men took advantage of the act to breed
slaves. Some children of the Negro women were freed by grateful
masters. Free Negro women were also held to be taxable. The Act
also gave greater support to slavery than to Christianity.
1663
First serious slave conspiracy in Colonial America. September
13. Servant betrayed plot oT white servants and Negro slaves in
Gloucester County, Va.
1664
Maryland enacted firrst anti-miscegenation law to prevent
marriages of Englishwomen and Negroes, Sept. 20. Virginia
banned interracial marriages in 1691; Massachusetts, 1705; North
Carolina, 1715; South Carolina, 1717; Delaware, 1721;
Pennsylvania, 1725.
1667-1682
The Act of 1667 was followed in 1682 by a supplement that
defined as slaves "imported servants who were not Christian." A
large proportion of Dutch and New England ships, however,
found it more profitable, to bring blacks from the West Indies,
where many Negroes were Christians. Finally a third Act made
slaves of "those servants who native country was not Christian."
Turks and Moors having been excluded. Sanctioned by State and
church, life servitude became the "proper" status of Africans, and
Virginia consciences were reconciled to baptism as freeing the
soul but not the body.
1688
' First formal protest against slavery in Western Hemisphere
made by German town Quakers at monthly meeting, February 18.
1700
Edward Teach, better known as ' Blackbeard' was captured
and his crew included 14 Negroes as regular members of his pirate
band. Prisoners taken to WUiamburg and were hanged at the
Gallows Road.
1704
School for Negro slaves opened in New York by Elias Neau, a
Frenchman.
1712
Slave revolt, New York, April 7. Nine whites were killed.
Twenty one slaves executed. In the sporadic wars raged against
the Indians, Negroes, slave and free, fought along with the
colonists. The slave Ismael Titus served with General Braddock as
' rider" of one of his supply wagons and Samuel Jenkins, who
belonged to Captain Broadwater of Fairfax County, served
heroically during Braddocks disastrous campaign against the
French in the Upper Ohio Valley.
The courage of Levisa Smith Bowen and her over-sized Negro
woman, name is unknown, is said to hae prevented in 1776 a
slaughter of women and children in Tazewell County.
1723
Massachusetts governor issued proclamation on the ' fires
which have been designed and industriously, kindled by some
villainous and desperate Negroes or other dissolute people as
appeared by the confession of some of them" on April 13. 1730
Slave conspiracy discovered in Norfolk and Princess Anne
Country, Va. Governor ordered white males to carry arms with
them to church.
1739
Slave revolt, Stono, South Carolina, September 9. Twenty-five
whites killed before insurrection put down.
1741
Series of suspicious fires and reports of slave conspiracy led to
general hysteria in New York City, March and April. Thirty-one
slaves, five whites were executed.
1750
Crispus Attucks, hero of American RevolutKn escaped from
his master in Framingham, Mass., September 30.
1760
Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church was born a slave, in Philadelphia, February 14. Jupiter
Hammon, New York Slave who was probably the first Negro
poet, published SALVATION BY CHRIST WITH
PENETENTIAL CRIES, December 25.
TO BE CONTINUED.