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THE ISIS PAPERS

THE KEYS TO THE COLORS

by Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

During the course of the struggle of African people against European racism, brutality and domination, many innovative thinkers have risen from our ranks. The greatest and most courageous scholars have devoted their lives to the pursuit of an explanation for the virtually inherent animosity most white people appear to have toward people of color. Unlike her predecessors, Dr. Frances Cress Welsing, a brilliant , Washington, D.C. psychiatrist has rejected conventional notions about the origin and perpetuation of racism. Dr. Welsing’s theories, lectures and scientific papers have provoked controversy for over twenty years. Now the compilation of her work in The Isis Papers is destined to change the course of history.

Legrand Clegg

Chief Deputy City Attorney

City of Compton, California

from the back cover

ACCOUNTABILITY

If his … untruthful utterances, his actions, and his inactions are found to have resulted in the unnecessary deaths of thousands of US citizens and the unnecessary deaths of tens of thousands of persons globally … don’t meet the definition of … CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY … then, according to Little Milton in the 1940’s … “Grits Ain’t Groceries, Eggs Ain’t Poultry and Mona Lisa was a Man.”

Jess A. 2020

THE WASHINGTONS OF WESSYNGTON PLANTATION

BY JOHN F. BAKER JR.

Stories of My Family’s Journey To Freedom

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A groundbreaking work of history and a deeply personal journey of discovery, The Washingtons of Wessyngton Plantation is an uplifting story of survival and family that gives fresh insight into American slavery and its ongoing legacy.

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When John F. Baker Jr. learned that a photograph in his seventh grade social studies textbook showed his great-great grandparents, he began his lifelong research project that would become The Washingtons Of Wessyngton Plantation, the fruit of more than thirty years of archival and field research as well as DNA testing spanning 250 years.

Baker’s vivid and captivating book is the most accessible and exciting work of African American history since Roots, revealing not only his own African American family’s story but the history of a plantation and the descendants of the enslaved who labored there and the family who owned them. Founded in 1796, Wessyngton Plantation covered 15,ooo acres and held 274 captives, whose labor made it the largest tobacco plantation in America. In addition to his research of birth registers, letters, diaries, and more. Baker conducted dozens of interviews–three of his subjects were more than one hundred years old–and discovered caches of historic photographs and paintings, which bring this compelling history to life.

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“Riveting …. The importance of Baker’s research can’t be overstated.”

—Kirkus Reviews

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JOHN F. BAKER JR. is a recipient of a national award from the American Association for State and Local History. This book is his first. For more information about his research, go to his website at www.wessyngton.com

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A FULL DOCUMENTARY ON– THE WASHINGTONS OF WESSYNGTON PLANTATION– IS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING ON ( YOU TUBE)

INHERITING THE TRADE

A Northern Family Confronts Its Legacy as the Largest Slave-Trading Dynasty in U.S. History

By Thomas Norman DeWolf

In 2001, at forty-seven, Thomas DeWolf was astounded to discover that he was related to the most successful slave-trading family in American history, responsible for transporting at least 10,000 Africans to the Americas. His infamous ancestor, U.S. senator James DeWolf of Bristol, Rhode Island, curried favor with President Jefferson to continue in the trade after it was outlawed. When James DeWolf died in 1837, he was the second-richest man in America.

When Katrina Browne, Thomas DeWolf’s cousin, learned about their family’s history, she resolved to confront it head-on, producing and directing a documentary feature film, Traces Of The Trade: A Story from the Deep North.

Inheriting the Trade is Tom DeWolf’s powerful and disarmingly honest memoir of the journey in which ten family members retraced the steps of their ancestors and uncovered the hidden history of New England and the other northern states.

Their journey through the notorious Triangle Trade — from New England to West Africa to Cuba–proved life-altering, forcing DeWolf to face the horrors of slavery directly for the first time. It also inspired him to contend with the complicated legacy that continues to affect black and white Americans, Africans, and Cubans today.

Inheriting the Trade reveals that the North’s involvement in slavery was as common as the South’s. Not only were black people enslaved in the North for over two hundred years, but the vast majority of all slave trading in America was done by northerners. Remarkably, half of all North American voyages involved in the slave trade originated in Rhode Island, and all the northern states benefited.

With searing candor, DeWolf tackles both the internal and external challenges of his journey — writing frankly about feelings of shame, white male privilege, the complicity of churches, America’s historic amnesia regarding slavery — and our nation’s desperate need for healing. An urgent call for meaningful and honest dialogue, Inheriting the Trade illuminates a path toward a more hopeful future and provides a persuasive argument that the legacy of slavery isn’t merely a southern issue but an enduring American one.

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“In ongoing efforts to promote racial reconciliation, this contemporary white family’s journey stands out. It represents the kind of honesty and courage that is so urgently needed to forge new ways of talking and thinking about the legacy of slavery.”

—Sherrilyn Ifill, author of On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-first Century.

“Tom DeWolf’s deeply personal story, of his own journey as well as his family’s, is required reading for anyone interested in reconciliation. Healing from our historic wounds, which continue to separate us, requires us to walk this road together.”

—Myrlie Evers-Williams, civil rights leader, chairman emeritus of the NAACP (1995-98), and author of The Autobiography of Medgar Evers, Watch Me Fly, and For Us, the Living.

“Inheriting the Trade is like a slow-motion mash-up, a first-person view from within one of the country’s founding families as it splinters, then puts itself back together again.”

—Edward Ball, author of Slaves in the Family

“A candid, powerful, and insightful book about how one family dealt with the infamous slave trade. Jarring in its candor, and revealing in its honest assessment of slavery and the DeWolf family, we must read important books like this if we dare to appreciate every aspect of our history and, as the DeWolf family does, dare to change our judgments about the wretched history of slavery.”

—Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., executive director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School

“Exploring the links between a grand Rhode Island mansion and dungeons in Ghana, Tom DeWolf traces the infernal trade that gave his family, and this country, great wealth and power. His journey into the past forces painful questions to the surface and illuminates our present.”

—-Henry Wiencek, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and author of An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

“Inheriting the Trade is a compelling invitation to explore how our country and many institutions, including churches, benefited from this dark chapter. Such exploration is essential if we are to move forward to a place of repair and racial reconciliation.”

—Rt. Rev. Frank T. Griswold, twenty-fifth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church

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THOMAS NORMAN DEWOLF served on the Oregon Arts Commission for nine years and as a local elected official for eleven. His years of public service focused on the arts, literacy, children’s issues, and restorative justice. Tom and his wife, Lindi, live in Oregon.

Beacon Press, 2008

from the jacket

GOODBYE UNCLE TOM

It was advertised as “The first motion picture based on historical facts about the rise and revolt of slavery in America.” It became one of the most reviled and misunderstood films of its time. Written, edited, produced and directed by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, this epic recreation of the American slave trade atrocities was both condemned as depraved exploitation and acclaimed as an unprecedented cry of black anguish and rage. The Detroit Chronicle hailed it as “a graphic, moving, nerve-paralyzing film.” Legendary film critic Pauline Kael called it “the most specific and rabid incitement of the race war.” Three decades cannot diminish GOODBYE UNCLE TOM’S impact or quiet its controversy.

Copyright 1971

(from the DVD case)

The Film, In Its Entirety, Can Be Viewed On You Tube

IMAGINE

Living In A

SOCIALIST USA

Edited by Frances Goldin, Debby Smith,

and Michael Steven Smith

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“The best, most insightful, and most lively work on socialism to appear in a long time.”

-PAUL BUHLE, author of MARXISM IN THE UNITED STATES

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“What are the possibilities inherent in Socialism? What is it? What can it mean to humanity’s future? What would it look like in America? These are the Questions raised in this exquisitely timely book. We must profoundly change the way we live, or we will not survive. A Socialism that we make ourselves could be the answer.”

Alice Walker

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The polar ice caps are melting, hurricanes and droughts ravish the planet, and Earth’s population is threatened by catastrophic climate change. Millions of American jobs have been sent overseas and aren’t coming back. Young African American men make up the majority of America’s prison population. Half of the American population is poor or near poor, living precariously on the brink, while the top one percent owns as much as the bottom eighty. Government police-state spying on its citizens is pervasive. Consequently, as former President Jimmy Carter has said, “we have no functioning democracy.”

Imagine: Living in a Socialist USA is at once an indictment of American capitalism as the root cause of our spreading dystopia and a cri di coeur for what life could be like in the United States if we had economic as well as a real political democraacy. It features thirty-one concise and accessible essays by revolutionary thinkers and activists on various aspects of a new society and, crucially, on how to get from here where we are now to where we want to be, living in a society that is truly fair and just.

from the cover

THE BIBLE

THE BIBLE IS A SELECTIVE GATHERING OF TEXTS WRITTEN BY VARIOUS AUTHORS AND TRANSCRIBED BY VARIOUS SCRIBES MOSTLY FROM THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST. THE BIBLE IS ONE OF THE MOST WIDELY READ BOOKS IN THE WORLD AND IS THE SOURCE OF MUCH HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND IS REVERED BY MANY.

THERE ARE NUMEROUS VERSIONS OF THE BIBLE. FOLLOWING IS A LISTING OF A FEW:

  • King James Version (1611, KJV) revised in 1769
  • American Standard Version (1901, ASV)
  • Twentieth Century New Testament (1901, TCNT) revised in 1904
  • The New Testament in Modern Speech (1903, NTMS)
  • The Worrell New Testament (1904)
  • Thompson Chain Reference Bible (1908)
  • The Scofield Study Bible (1909) revised 1917
  • A New Translation of the Bible (1928, MNT)
  • The Bible: An American Translation (1935, AAT)
  • The New Testament in the Language of the People (1937, NTLP)
  • Knox Bible (1949, KNOX)
  • Revised Standard Version (1952, RSV)
  • The Daily Study Bible (1954)
  • The New Testament in Modern English (1958, NTME)
  • Wuest Expanded Translation of the New Testament (1959, WET)
  • The Berkeley Version in Modern English (1959, BV)
  • Dake Annotated Reference Bible (1963)
  • The Amplified Bible (1965, AMP)
  • The Jerusalem Bible (1966, JB)
  • The New American Bible (1970, NAB)
  • New English Bible (1970, NEB)
  • New American Standard Bible (1971, NASB or NAS)
  • The Living Bible (1971, TLB)
  • The Good News Bible (1976, GNB or GNT)
  • The New International Version (1978, NIV)
  • New King James Version (1982, NKJV)
  • The Hebrew-Greek Key Study Bible (1984)
  • Revised English Bible (1989, REB)
  • New Revised Standard Version (1990,NRSV)
  • 21st Century King James Version (1994, KJ21)
  • Contemporary English Version (1995, CEV)
  • New Living Translation (1996, NLT) revised 2004
  • English Standard Version (2001, ESV)
  • The Message (2002, MSG)
  • Holman Christian Standard Bible (2004, HCSB)
  • Today’s New International Version (2005,TNIV)
  • New English Translation (2005, NET)

Some of the above versions do not include the books that are found in the Septuagint and Vulgate versions of the Old Testament but not in the Hebrew Bible. Some modern Bibles sometimes include them in the Old Testament or as an appendix, or sometimes omit them.

Also absent are materials from the Dead Sea Scrolls and The Nag Hammadi Scriptures which include The Gnostic Gospels: The Gospel of Mary, The Gospel of Philip, The Gospel of Thomas, The Gospel of Truth, The Gospel of Judas, Gospel to the Egyptians, Gospel to the Hebrews, The Secret Book of James, The Secret Book of John, etc.

The Bible, in its various versions, will forever be a valued source of REFERENCE and REVERENCE for many.

Jess A., 2020

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THE JEFFERSON BIBLE

The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Introduction by Forrest Church

Afterword by Jaroslav Pelikan

“Gives us a preaching Jesus of distinctly human dimensions, without miracles or resurrection. [A] fascinating document, telling us a great deal about a great eighteenth-century mind and its world.”

Charles S. Adams, Religious Studies Review

“These excerpts from the four Gospels are among the most interesting and compelling in all the Scripture. They emphasize Jesus’s ethical lessons of love, reverence, forbearance, reproachment, repentance, and forgiveness.”

Garret Ward Sheldon, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

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We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus. There will be remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.

Thomas Jefferson

Featuring an introduction by Forrest Church, this reissue of The Jefferson Bible offers extraordinary insight into the logic of Thomas Jefferson and the Gospel of Jesus. Working in the White House in 1804, Jefferson set out to edit the Gospels in order to uncover the essence of true religion in the simple story of the life of Jesus. Jefferson was convinced that the authentic message of Jesus could be found only by extracting from the Gospels Jesus’ message of absolute love and service, rather than the miracle of the Annunciation, Virgin Birth, or even the Resurrection. Completed in 1819, this little book is the remarkable result of Jefferson’s efforts.

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Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was the third president of the United States, the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the founder of the University of Virginia. Among his proudest achievements was his Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, passed by the General Assembly of Virginia in 1786, which became the first law of its kind in the United States. Also a noted architect and naturalist, Jefferson designed and built his home, Monticello, near Charlottesville, Virginia.

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Forrest Church is senior minister of All Souls Church in New York City and author of Lifecraft.

Beacon Press, 1989

THE CURSE OF BIGNESS

ANTITRUST IN THE NEW GILDED AGE

TIM WU

We live in an age of extreme corporate concentration, in which global industries are controlled by just a few giant firms–big banks, big pharma, and big tech, just to name a few. But concern over what Louis Brandeis called the “curse of bigness” can no longer remain the province of specialist lawyers and economists, for it spilled over into policy and politics, even threatening democracy itself. History suggests that tolerance of inequality and failing to control excessive corporate power may prompt the rise of populism, nationalism, extremist politicians, and fascist regimes. In short, as Wu warns we are in grave danger of repeating the signature errors of the twentieth century.

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” Erudite, energizing, outraging, funny and thorough.”

Cory Doctorow, Boing-Boing

“Wu writes with elegance and clarity, giving readers the pleasing sensation of walking into a stupendously well-organized closet.”

The New York Times

“A bracing intellectual tour de force.”

San Francisco Chronicle

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TIM WU is a policy professor at Columbia Law School, and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He worked on competition policy in the Obama White House and the Federal Trade Commission, served as senior enforcement counsel at the New York Office of the Attorney General, and worked at the Supreme Court for Justice Stephen Breyer. He is the author of The Master Switch (2010) and The Attention Merchants (2016).

from the cover