How London used to be. I received this message after I had a dream of buying a white jump suit with high collars. There is also a tube station at Aldgate, if my memory serves me it is on the circle line.
Aldgate has some interesting history, it is written that in 1773, "Poems on Various Subjects. Religious and Moral" by Phillis Wheatley, the first book of an African-American was published in Aldgate after her owners could not find a publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. Interesting that the link has written "owners".
The young Phillis was educated by the family that she lived with, and by the age of 12 she was reading Greek and Latin. If you read her profile it doesn't sound like she did very much, and the family just enjoyed educating her, because she was so intelligent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjWDBQ9-58g
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldgate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillis_Wheatley
So then even in the 1700's, English publishers were more likely to help African-American's to get published, than the Americans were.
Some of those African-Americans in the 21st century, don't like the fact that she wrote about the Christians saving her from Africa. This is what she wrote:
"Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land,
Taught my benighted soul to understand
That there's a God, that there's a Saviour too:
Once I redemption neither sought or knew.
Some view our sable race with scornful eye,
"Their colour is a diabolic dye".
Remember, Christians, Negroes, black as Cain,
May be refin'd and join th' angelic train".
My view of that is that just maybe what Phillis Wheatley wrote doesn't fit in with the African- American narrative, and maybe she was very appreciative of being saved from the African continent's female genital mutilation, that still exists today.
Not only do they circumcise boys, in Africa, but girls too, yea, even in the 21st century. Did you know that cuts in childhood mutate genetics.
In fact, I was listening to a recent report being discussed with Sadiq Khan, that there are 2,500 known cases of FGM in London right now.
Who knows how many there are nationally in the UK, or even in America, and the rest of Europe. Every woman would wish to be saved from the African continent circumcision practices, wouldn't they, yet it is clear that those practices have been imported with immigration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJN36ZDzLSY
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