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Issue: 254

November 22, 2007

Commentary

Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning – Text of 1970 speech by Wampsutta, An Aquinnah Wampanoag Elder

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The current issue is always free to everyone When Frank James (1923 – February 20, 2001), known to the Wampanoag people as Wampsutta, was invited to speak by the Commonwealth of Massachusettsat the 1970 annual Thanksgiving feast at Plymouth. When the text of Mr. James’ speech, a powerful statement of anger at the history of…

The current issue is always free to everyone When Frank James (1923 - February 20, 2001), known to the Wampanoag people as Wampsutta, was invited to…

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Cover Story

The End of American Thanksgivings – A Cause for Universal Celebration

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

Ironically, an apologist for Virginian slavery made one of the best, early cases for the indictment of New England as the engine of the American slave trade. Unreconstructed secessionist Lewis Dabney’s 1867 book “A Defense of Virginia” traced the slave trade’s origins all the way back to Plymouth Rock: The planting of the commercial States…

Ironically, an apologist for Virginian slavery made one of the best, early cases for the indictment of New England as the engine of the American slave…

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