'George Washington Williams'

'George Washington Williams potently believed that every man, adult female and child had rights - no matter the mask of their skin. Although he was something of a con artist, he believed that it was his responsibility to give tongue to out when he saw that those rights had been taken away from new(prenominal)s by an abuse of power. During a trip to the congou tea, Williams larn that the human rights of Africans in the Congo had been stripped. His enrapture at this air direct him to draw up a long Open garner describing the deplorable military post in the Congo. Williams awareness of responsibility led him to become the offshoot the Statesn or European to in public denounce the intercession of Africans in the Congo.\nWilliams was an African-American with little education. Williams was innate(p) in 1849 in Pennsylvania. In 1864, he enlisted in the forty-first U.S. Colored host of the Union Army. He fought in several(prenominal) battles and was wounded in combat. Soon after, he enlisted in the force of the Republic of Mexico. Williams reenlisted in the U.S. Army when he returned home. He go forth the army the coterminous socio-economic class, and so he studied shortly at Howard University. Williams conjoin and became pastor of the twelfth Baptist Church the grade he calibrated from the seminary. He then moved to Washington, D.C. and founded a national minatory newspaper, the Commoner, after solo a year as a minister.\nNext, Williams wrote a book, biography of the Negro unravel in America from 1619 to 1880. Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens, together with a precedent consideration of the wholeness of the Human Family and historic Sketch of Africa and an broadside of the Negro Governments of sierra Leone and Liberia, which was published in two volumes. Williams intercommunicate veterans groups, fraternal organizations, and church building congregations while traveling the lecture circuit. He floated through ot her professions and never seemed to stick out enough money.\nWilliams became fire in Leopolds Congo when he met a gen... '