"Out of the heart come wicked reasoning, murders, adulteries, sexual immortality." - Matthew 15:19 Shackled with chains, branded with hot irons, and ropes tightly knotted around their neck - slaves. Taken from Africa, sold to the highest bidder, as thousands and thousands are murdered, resold, and replaced for the sake of greed and prominence. - SHACKLED & BRANDED In 1659 AD, "The Master calls me Mary Nella, cause, he said that's my name. I's a 19 years old wench, a slave, and I's belong to him. ...I's do loves that black man that works in Master's stables. ...Well, Master says, 'he can't have me now. Not til he finish wit me!' Master first take me after my first rag, I's was twelve. And Master has taken me many times mo. I feels Master's seed growin inside my belly. I's pray to die before it's come out...I's feels Master seed inside my belly three times be'fo. And I's never see my chilings no more after they come out of me...I's must be strong. I's must be...but it's hard!" - John Hanson becomes the first Black president of the United States, of the Continental Congress in 1781 AD, after signing the Articles of Confederation. - XONG DI (brother) 1799 AD - A victim of sarcasm, prejudice, and humiliation Chao never thought that this day would come. The day of heartache when his only friend, a black man, Blake Aloysius Brown, is shot by an unknown assassin. With every thrash of the whip the wagon speed across the rocky plains and down the dusty trails as Chao hurries homeward. As each second, each memory of their time together flashes before his eyes, Chao hopes to save the life of a man he calls 'his true friend, his real brother. Neema Brown, a freed slave, also called Tibbie, has one last moment to express heartfelt sentiments to her common-law husband, of only six months, who is dying in her arms. His bloody body dangles across the steps of their two-room shanty as she desperately tries to obstruct the bleeding. Within moments her horrid screams insanely tell the sorrow deep within her soul. She mercifully pleads: Blake Aloysius Brown 'Take my love with you... ONE LAST MOMENT - The 'Rise of a Nation' the Zulus demandingly sweep across Africa conquering and successfully uniting millions of African kingdoms, bringing fear to many, especially the British forces. Shaka Zulu is notably acknowledged worldwide as the greatest King of Zululand. Shaka 'A King of a Nation.' Died by the hands of his half-brothers, during the battle against the British in 1828 AD - 1826 AD, The Underground Railroad is established in Pennsylvania. Its invisible pathway, secret roads, and dangerous journey eagerly offered thousands of runaways' slaves a chance at freedom. Groups of people working secretly together, Black and White, resisted the terrible conditions of slavery. Abolitionists and freed men of color fought the degrading acts and laws that dominate slaves in America; such as the Fugitive Slave Law passed by Congress on September 1850, known as the Compromise of 1850 AD between the South, plantation/ slave owners, and North. The law or act is also known as the Bloodhound Law. - The Civil War ends in 1865 AD, but the hunt for black skin soar. Forty acres and a mule is only a dream as the Ku Klux Klan roars through the dark nights, with burning torches lighting up the sky, lynching, terrifying and burning Blacks out of their homes, and stealing their property. Shouts to "Go West" echoes across the frontier; broken treaties and countless lies for the right to settle under the Homestead Act, a one-sided invitation triggering horrific battles between Americans and the true residents of the land, the natives, referred to as Indians.