I have looked for it, and surely have a paper copy in storage in
California. So far no luck digitally though. It was written on an
Apple II, in a program called MacWord, defunct these many years, and
it may not have gotten further than floppies. I'll let you know.
-- S
On 9 May 2008, at 18:40, Anne Pemberton wrote:
> Stephan,
>
> If you can find that paper, I would love to have the names of those
> African Americans and Native Americans who were considered geniuses
> to add to my Famous Americans. I'm sure Powhatan would be in that
> group, or at least approaching it. Pocahontas was no dumb bunny
> herself.
>
> Anne
>
>
> Anne Pemberton
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephan A. Schwartz"
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> Subject: Re: PBS Misrepresentation of the truth on their web page
> in Barger's o pinion
>
>
> Anita --
>
> While I am deeply empathic to the plight of those who were oppressed,
> history tells us clearly that genius appears in the most unlikely
> places, and that these individuals, regardless of their
> circumstances, arc across the human narrative like comets,
> enlightening the lives of everyone. I can't seem to find the paper —
> probably lost in the transfer from one generation of computers to
> another, and I can no longer remember the journal in which it was
> published — but about 30 years ago, prompted by a conversation I had
> with an extraordinary materials scientist, then on the faculty of
> Hampton Institute, I wrote a paper on genius that arose from the
> American slave population, and in the years immediately afterwards.
> Obvious examples are Frederick Douglas, and Booker T. Washington
> (born in Hales Ford, Virginia in April 1856), but the list is much
> longer. There are also many accounts of slaves who were considered
> brilliant technical craftsmen. I particularly remember the story of a
> slave in Louisiana, who became an early expert in optics.
>
> -- Stephan
>
>
> On 9 May 2008, at 18:38, Anita Wills wrote:
>
>> It is much easier to be considered a genius when you have the
>> time to sit and think. It would have been extremely difficult
>> for Natives and African slaves to produce geniuses during that
>> time period.
>
>
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