... actors back then. If you knew lines then you were a good actor. John Wilkes booth was also a racist. He thought that the white man was the power and no other power could over through the white man. Then when Lincoln became president and started to change what I think he called the RULE; which was that there were no rights or freedom for anyone who wasn't a white native American ... his left ankle. Ignoring his pain he went on to the stage and said "Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus always with tyrants)." Then he escaped and Ran with his broken ankle to an awaiting horse he had originally put th...

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... the banks of the Tuckahoe Creek deep within the woods of Maryland. Separated from his mother at an early age, he was raised by his grandparents Betsy and Isaac Bailey. Isaac and Betsy were not thought to be of relation. Isaac was a free man and a sawyer, while Betsy was an owned slave, but she kept her own rules. Her owner trusted her to watch over and raise the children of the ... . It was not an easy job. While all of the mothers were busy working in the fields of their master, Aaron Anthony, she was busy watching over their infants. Betsy Bailey was quite a woman. She was a master fis...

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