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For years , as I traveled and lived in Liberia , West Africa , England and after immigrating to the United States in 1968 , I recalled vignettes of our family's escape for new acquain- tances , explaining my presence on foreign land ...
For years , as I traveled and lived in Liberia , West Africa , England and after immigrating to the United States in 1968 , I recalled vignettes of our family's escape for new acquain- tances , explaining my presence on foreign land ...
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... many names from the number of tribes to which they and their ancestors belonged in Africa , the latter could trace their ancestry to one common family . They took the name of their father Israel whose father 17 Child of A Mountainous Land.
... many names from the number of tribes to which they and their ancestors belonged in Africa , the latter could trace their ancestry to one common family . They took the name of their father Israel whose father 17 Child of A Mountainous Land.
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... Africa and those of a mixed race saw in their murderers and exploiters a grotesque misrepresentation of Christianity and God . Slave owner and slave both created in the image of His maker , both ignorant of the one who yearned to be ...
... Africa and those of a mixed race saw in their murderers and exploiters a grotesque misrepresentation of Christianity and God . Slave owner and slave both created in the image of His maker , both ignorant of the one who yearned to be ...
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... Africa , relinquished their separate tribal identities to become a citizen of the Republic of Haiti . It is easy to speculate what the word " Haitian " meant in those days depending on whose lips framed that word . For obvious reasons ...
... Africa , relinquished their separate tribal identities to become a citizen of the Republic of Haiti . It is easy to speculate what the word " Haitian " meant in those days depending on whose lips framed that word . For obvious reasons ...
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... Africa , however , isola- tion from the world was yet another price paid for freedom . There was a pervasive national paranoia in Haiti against foreign domination , which peaked during a nineteen - years occupation by the United States ...
... Africa , however , isola- tion from the world was yet another price paid for freedom . There was a pervasive national paranoia in Haiti against foreign domination , which peaked during a nineteen - years occupation by the United States ...
Conteúdo
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57 | |
The making of a refugee | 103 |
Refugee | 139 |
A single blue suitcase well traveled | 173 |
Liberated daughter of a troubled people | 217 |
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Página 74 - ... forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers, " but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot...
Página 13 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
Página 292 - Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Página 139 - And he said unto his daughters, And where is he ? why is it that ye have left the man ? call him, that he may eat bread.
Página 103 - The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses. 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.
Página 74 - Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you; 15 (For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you;) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Página 57 - Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither is there any end of their chariots: Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.