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KNOW YOUR BLACK HISTORY by Larry Thompson The Black man, from the earliest times to the present, has excelled in every area, contrary to the belief that we have only excelled in the areas of sports and entertainment. The men in this week’s article are just a few who excelled in other fields. Juan de Pareja, a famous pupil of the Spanish painter, Velasquez, was born in Seville, Spain in 1606. This Black man was bought on the slave market in the year of 1623. His duties as a slave included grinding the colors, keeping the brushes clean and making sure that the studio was kept clean and orderly. Since it was illegal for slaves to be taught to paint or anything of that nature, Juan, was not allowed to study with his master. But Juan being an extremely perceptive and gifted young man, took advantage of every opportunity he could to try to paint on his own. He seemingly “responded to the canvas as if by magic.” Juan had the chance to go to Rome in 1649 with Velasquez, and was exposed to the great Italian painters. When Juan de Pareja was in his forties, he began on a painting of his own, carefully concealing it from his master. Finally, as a result of this secret painting, Juan’s fate changed in 1651 after returning to Spain. Philip IV, who had become a regular visitor of Velasquez accidentally came upon the slave’s work. The king recognizing the value of the work and the obvious talent of Juan, ordered Velasquez to free him of his bondage, as a reward instead of the punishment Juan must have certainly expected. He then became a student of Velasquez and developed into one of the greatest religious portrait painters. He was also well-known as the subject of one of Velasquez’s masterpieces, a beautiful portrait of an African slave, which has been exhibited in Rome. Today this portrait of Juan de Pareja is one of the most expensive paintings in the world. Recently it sold for a record price. Some of Juan de Pareja’s works were indistinguishable from Velasquez; but most showed evidence of his individual genius and others reflected the style of the best schools in Genoa and Venice, and the influence of the Flemish masters. Among his works are “The Presentation of Christ at the Temple,” “Baptism of Christ,” which is now in the Santa Trinidad Gallery in Toledo, “The Calling of St. Matthews” which is now in the Prado Gallery in Madrid. Juan de Pareja, the great Black Spanish artist died in 1670. While other races have their dynasties of heroes and heroines to boast of, the Black race has its dynasties also. One such dynasty was the Dumas dynasty. Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie, born in 1762, took his mother’s name, Dumas, beginning the dynasty of the three Dumases in Modern French History. His mother was a Black woman of Santa Domingo, his father a Marquis. Thomas received his education at Bordeaux. And in 1789 he enlisted in the French army to fight for the cause of “liberty, equality, and fraternity” in the French Revolution. In 1792 he distinguished himself for bravery and endurance and advanced to the rank of General, becoming commander of the army of the Pyrenees in 1793 and campaigned with Napoleon Bonaparte in Italy, in the Tyrol and in Egypt. General Dumas hated the cruelties committed in the name of the Republic. When he found out that Napoleon intended to create an empire instead of keeping a Republican government, he didn’t hide his dissatisfaction and asked to return home from the campaigns. Enroute home he was captured by the Bourbon government of Naples and imprisoned for two years. Napoleon never forgave General Dumas for disapproving his endeavors, consequently the General was forced to retire with a very small pension, and died in poverty in 1806. He left a widow, a daughter and a son, Alexandre, who became one of the literary geniuses of France. Alexandre the General’s son, second of the Dumas dynasty born in 1802, was known as a “prolific French novelist and playwright of the nineteenth century.” Alexandre began his education at the age of three under a tutor secured by his mother. Alexandre, father at this time, leaving the family in poverty. Therefore it was a necessity for the young Dumas to find employment at an early age. First he worked as a clerk in a notary’s office; then later he was a copying clerk in the office of the Duke of Orleans, at the same time studying the sciences, languages and literature to improve his education. His drama, “Henri 111 and His Court”, was a great success, bringing overnight success to him. He was appointed assistant librarian in the Palais Royal as a result of that successful drama. Alexandre Dumas is credited with . introducing through his plays the Romantic movement to the French stage. He produced over 300 volumes of novels, memoirs and travel books and 25 volumes of dramas. Three of his famous novels, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, have been popularized by the movie industry and can still be seen on television. During the revolution of 1848, he had to flee to Switzerland because he was a supporter of the French Republic. The second Dumas, as did the first, died leaving Iris family in poverty, in 1870. The last of the Dumas Dynasty was born Alexandre also, in 1824. He became renown as both a philosopher and reformer as well as a writer. His writings were revolutionary in fighting prejudice and for equality for the unfortunate. Alexandre first wrote poetry, then turned to drama and the novel. But he was mainly concerned with the moral and the social question of the French Society. He gained recognition as a reformer through the work, The Sins of Youth. Alexandre’s works, as were those of his father,Alexandre,arestill popular on the stage. He was a member ot the French Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1874, a privilege which had been denied his father. Alexandre Dumas, writer, reformer and philosopher, the last of the Dumas Dynasty died in 1895. Though Alexandre Dumas’ death brought about the abrupt end of the great, renown Dumas Dynasty, it did not conclude the achievements of Blacks in every field that lay open for conquest. ANDERSON BAR | ■ r 1441 12th ST. i J OPEN FROM ' J 7:30 to 2 A.Mafe "Dot" ‘-Hattie- ph on e 722-7896 Partners "We are happy to serve you” No Worries Come enjoy our pleasant ■ All J u I surroundings and linger W 6 W CI Sil Allowed Here! With your favorite brew P r|urft || CloArlrC and good companions. ■ ™i" VIICCIIS WHITE LIBERALS Cont’d from page 1 racial resolutions, if he had any, fade and are eventually lost. If he fights the mold, they poke derisive fun at him and make him appear ludicrous. One can’t act like a “nigger” in suave white surroundings. White liberals listen with compassion to his now guilt-ripened pleas for help for his black brothers back in the ghetto. They throw him a few crumbs of appeasement. But soon he becomes worthless to us and priceless to them. He has lost his power to lead us, to hurt them. In his thinking and love for the creative comforts, he becomes one .of their troops in all respects save for his color. He helps them to repress and enslave his own kind. White liberals do not get as upset as white conservatives about sex between white tramps and “niggers” because they know that those white girls who do spend time with “niggers” are nothing more than dregs settled at the bottom of the social barrel. Historically and appropriately, the sexual peccadillos of the dregs are the petty province of conservatives, red necks, white trash and the hysterical slobs. The typical flower of white womanhood by training and breeding would rather be dead than have sexual congress with a “nigger.” They feel that the “niggers” and the dregs will always be at the bottom of the barrel. The League’s and other Black Uncle Toms’ future in the seventies look bleak in the face of rising black militancy and its predictably primitive policy for blacks who delude and hustle other blacks in the ghetto. And the white man’s future looks less than bright as he turns on his own young like a rabid wolf to crush their dissent against racism, poverty and war. Much of the white man’s bestial cruelty toward his own young is possibly rooted in the traumatic realization that, in the wake of the black revolution, young whites in alar mi ng numbers have rapturously embraced the black life style, its soul-laced music, speech idiom and over-all social attitudes. Certainly this wholesale imitation of and compassion for the blacks would indicate unprecedented and imminent possibility for wholesale sexual congress with blacks. The “niggerization” of his young has thrown the white man off , $ eW PATRICK LEWIS Patrick Lewis was recently baptized at Mount Zion A.M.E. Church by Reverend Robert L. Postell. He is the son of Mrs. Vivian Lewis, the grandson of Mr. & Mrs. Henry Terrell of Augusta, Ga. Patrick is the great grandson of Willie Hazel Johnson of Augusta and the great great grandson of Mrs. Bertha Parnell of Waynesboro, Georgia. balance not only because of his classic paranoiac concern for that mythic sanctity of white womanhood, but also because of a potential white coalition with the black revolution. These of course are secondary fears plaguing the white man. His central fears are when and where the fanatical bombers of the new left will strike and what is the true quantity and quality, ultimate objectives and specific location of the unpredictable enemy. This is why J. Edgar Hopver places so much emphasis on the leadership in the black movement. The F. 8.1. followed Dr. King. They placed Angela Davis on the 10 most-wanted list. The white man’s dire situation has arisen not only because he offers no moral leadership, but because his use of repressive force instead of dialogue in dealing with young disenchanted Americans prevents him from examining and correcting the escalating rage and terror. A police state created ostensibly for the YOUR BEST BUY IS at JIM SATCHER MOTORS '7l FORDS Over Cost JOHNSTON, S.C. (28 Miles from Augusta) AIKEN-BATH-AUGUSTA RESIDENTS CALL 593-4373 OR 722-0386 new fashions Shop at JACK LEVINE’S 973 BROAD ST. (WITH THE BLACK & GOLD AWNING) SHOP WHERE THE CELEBRITIES SHOP W] AUGUSTA’S PIONEER ALL BLACK PROGRAMME! 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