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Post by Jaga on Mar 30, 2014 15:31:09 GMT -7
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Post by kaima on Mar 30, 2014 15:59:47 GMT -7
This is a nice follow-up to my posting jagahost.proboards.com/thread/16092/poles-1910-black-american-viewThe book is down-loadable at google books. There are a few nits I would pick with the article as written, to start with I doubt that Washington visited all 3 parts of Partitioned Poland. He was in Krakow and Galicia, and only traveled perhaps 12 miles north of there to briefly cross the border into Russian Poland. Throughout his book, Washington made interesting comparisons between the local Farthest Man Down and the Negro in America, and much to the surprise of this American the Negro in America of 1910 often came out with positive aspects of life that were missing for our ancestors. This was in an era when civil rights and liberties for Negroes was shrinking in America, removing rights they won with their freedom after the Civil War. Again, I recommend the book, both for the view of life in SE Poland of the day and the USA at that time.
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