The Transcript Of A Speech Delivered By Thomas Morris Chester

This document is the transcript of a speech delivered by Thomas Morris Chester to an audience in Philadelphia in 1862. Based on the citation for the passage, we can assume that this version was the one published as a pamphlet. Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1834, Thomas Morris Chester was the son of escaped slave from Maryland who had found as an oyster salesman. As a young man, he traveled to Liberia upon his return he became an editor of the Star of Liberia newspaper, a pro-African colonization publication. By the time of the Civil War, he was one of the more famous African-American orators and an advocate for Black Nationalism.After this speech, he would serve as a recruiter for colored regiments. According to some reports even raising a militia of free blacks to defend Harrisburg during the Gettysburg Campaign. In August 1864, he became a war correspondent for the Philadelphia Press and spent the rest of the war traveling with the Army of the Potomac on the long road to Appomattox. Directly upon his return from the front, he would join the National Equal Rights League. This speech was delivered on December 9, 1862 at the close of one of the bloodiest years and in the midst of one of the greatest turning points in American history The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation had been announced several months earlier, but the Proclamation would not come into effect for another month. American slavery was truly dying, leaving African-Americans in a period of uncertaintyShow MoreRelatedOrganisational Theory230255 Words   |  922 Pageshave not been or cannot be empirically tested. Hence, positivism combines what we have called an objectivist epistemology and a realist ontology (Figure 1.7). It is widely agreed that positivism is pivotal to management for two reasons. First, as Thomas (1997) notes, ‘Positivism holds the promise of techniques for controlling the world’ (p. 693) with which managers expect to be provided. Second, provided that managers appear practically to use neutral scientific knowledge, their subsequent practicesRead MoreFu ndamentals of Hrm263904 Words   |  1056 PagesInterior Design Senior Media Editor Senior Photo Editor Production Management Cover Design Cover Credit George Hoffman Lise Johnson Sarah Vernon Amy Scholz Laura Finley Dorothy Sinclair Sandra Dumas Susan McLaughlin Kevin Murphy Laura Ierardi Allison Morris Hilary Newman mb editorial services David Levy  ©Michael Eudenbach/Getty Images, Inc. This book was set in 10/12 ITC Legacy Serif Book by Aptaracorp, Inc. and printed and bound by Courier/Kendallville. The cover was printed by Courier/Kendallville