Slavery.

Of my ancestry I know almost nothing. In the slave quarters, and even later, I heard whispered conversations among the colored people of the tortures which the slaves, including, no doubt, my ancestors on my mother's side, suffered in the middle passage of the slave ship while being conveyed from Africa to America. I have been unsuccessful in securing any information that would throw any accurate light upon the history of my family beyond my …

…the race to which I am proud to belong. must be said to have been proud of his race and proud of humankind. The fact that his vision exceeded that of the rest of his country men should not be reason to judge him harshly. Rather, his fellow Americans should be judged harshly and he should be celebrated as a great American visionary in the spirit of Jefferson and Lincoln and the Roosevelt's and Reagan.