This book is about the United States African Naval Squadron suppression of the slave trade on the West coast of Africa. The U.S. Navy recaptured Africans bound for slaves to the United States aboard American ships and resettled them in the American colony in Liberia.The Slave Trade, 1842-1861 was...
The vast, gray expanse of the desert lay still as a pic ture in the heat of the early afternoon. The silence of waste places held it. It was gaunt and sterile, clad with a drab growth of sage, flat as a table, and with the white scurf of the alkali breaking through its parched skin. It was the...
The path is strewn with dead men's bones. You see the white thigh-bones lying in front of your feet, and at one side, among the undergrowth, you find the skull. These are the skeletons of slaves who have been unable to keep up with the march, and so were murdered or left to die.
William Tyndale (/ˈtɪndəl/;[1] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c. 1494 – c. 6 October 1536) was an English biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He is well known as a...
A colleague and I were discussing “leadership” and what that truly meant. We came up with this analogy, which I hope you’ll enjoy.Moving rocks for a living? Imagine you move rocks for a living. The more rocks you move, the more you’re paid. You don’t move rocks, you don’t get paid...
There is a garden on a hill slope between the snows of the Sierra Nevada and the warm, rich valleys of the coast. It IS in that region Of Northern California where the pine belt and the fruit belt interlace. Both pine and fruit trees grow in that mountain garden, and there, in the new moon of...
Yates Stirling Jr. was a young boy when he stood on the deck of a United States Navy warship for the first time. An admiral on board asked him if he was going join the Navy like his father. Young Stirling answered, "I hope to, sir."
For five hundred years those who call themselves free spirits because they prefer prison life to army service have been trying desperately to kill Jesus a second time—to kill Him in the hearts of men.
It has been found that around 1.9 million children between the ages of 3 and 17 have been diagnosed with some form of depression. To make matters worse, two out of three people who are suffering from depression do not receive the proper treatment they need. Although treatment and care for...
Our planned tour through the Deep South didn't quite go according to our expectations. In book five of our Beans and I on the Loose series we do our best to salvage the 2021 tour season which led us to new adventures (most without much forethought) throughout America.