One of those concerns the Siege of Savannah in 1779, which pitted American Revolutionary forces against British imperialists in the Southern state of Georgia. More than 500 free men of color participated, recruited in colonial Saint-Domingue by a French admiral under the banner of Chasseurs Volontaires d’Amérique. It was a gross irony, of course, because the independent United States would not be a good place for black men.

The statue erected in Franklin Square, in Savannah, depicts five black soldiers and a little drummer boy who would grow up to become Haiti’s first ruler, Henri Christophe.



http://www.ozy.com/flashback/how-haitians-helped-win-the-american-revolution/61439

was the first one on the planet to ban slavery.

I didn't know there was a statue until I started searching for this today

and certainly don't recall seeing this statue. So much interesting history there...

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and they are never exposed unless or until they turn against the oppressors.

revolution that made it possible for Western countries to conquer and dominate so much of the world. It wasn't just meanness. It was also intellectual curiosity that made the West so dominant.

I am very opposed to racism, but I also think that the Enlightenment and the gradual awareness of the scientific method and reaching out to the world which happened to some extent all over the world but especially in European countries should not be ignored.

If the Enlightenment and the age of scientific discovery and all that went with it had happened in Africa, the tables would be turned.

The strange thing is that the inspiration and basic principles that the Greeks, the Egyptians and others had discovered many, many centuries before the Enlightenment made the explosion of information and the systematic study that was the Enlightenment possible. But for some reason, the Enlightenment and the Age of Discovery were rather unique in the history of the world.

I hope my post does not offend anyone, but I believe we should not forget this.

and now American folks laugh at the banana republics - all made by the USA.

of countries the U.S. invaded, or overthrew via coups:
Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, the Congo and Iran to name a few. That doesn't include supporting dictators in many others.

Not only supporting dictators but interfering in elections.