CK 1tIONIT'CM- • I
May is 1 monlh t "de Q
. dIzy 10 remembt!r and honor our
or dead. The lIIioltlll BLA
V ITO offers Ih' memoriollo m
Defi of Amerial- her living or
dead,
read:
olCola, T
erdam
and toma-
off Indian
taken to
Ma!adlllSetts Bay Colony in 1638. In
requiring all men,
indludina InC_as _I_,'_"'�' to train for
value." and hit
in the South Carolina
of early America
ite t to defend
AmeriCa and be treated in a human
y- indentured servan of
Europtan desccnt-more and more Ia
ere tended to demean or
dehumanize Americans. an ex-
am ,in 1m, Varginia passed a law re-
quiring free to only as .
"drummers or trumpeters" In of in-
v nor, they were required to
march ith the militia servants-not
SOI(]IlerS. And much more oppression of
def to come.
On S, IT1O, British soldiers re-
sponded to the jeers and balling of a
small band of civilians by firing into the
cro d. Crispus Attuc ,ofugi' ve slave
and leader of the rev against British in­
justice, by the first buIIets� and
is listed in history boo the first
martyred defender of America. This act
of Briti -inspired violence, known as the
led to the American
On October 8, 177S, General George
W called a staff meeting to
Q1S(;USS the wisdom of bIac, em-
, tered by mistreatment during en-
slavement, in the Continental Anny. a
means of perpetuating ensIavemen of
ho bIac , new Ia
that classified bIac chat-
--Ii e piece of wood or any common
property- ever hoping to reeei
any kind of rilbts. Within this
mosphere, . decided not to
ei ves or free soldiers.
FOunctin&
F J on perpetuatin&
of dehumanization for they viewed
. economic aood, f; they had to
choose an 'Revolution.
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