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`` Billions of American dollars, not only from capital investors but also from the pockets of U.S. taxpayers '', this author states, `` are being poured into South Africa to support a system dedicated to the oppression, the persecution, and the almost diabolical exploitation of 12 million people the color of whose skins happens not to be white ''.
Not only should this provision be enforced but other economic and political actions might be taken which, this author believes, `` must surely be supported by every American who values the freedom that has been won for him and whose conscience is not so dominated by the lines in his account books that he can willingly and knowingly contribute to the enslavement of another nation ''.
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Mark Twain was a prominent American author of the 19th century.
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* 1817 – Lewis A. Armistead, American Confederate general ( d. 1863 )
* 1944 – Armistead Maupin, American author
* James Armistead, America's first spy ; an African American who provided the information to the Continental Army that Cornwallis was headed to Yorktown in 1781.
It was awarded and nominated for numerous awards, including six American Library Association awards, a nomination for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.
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Lewis Addison Armistead ( February 18, 1817 – July 5, 1863 ) was a Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War, who was wounded, captured, and died after Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Tales of the City refers to a series of eight novels written by American author Armistead Maupin.
Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City premiered at the American Conservatory Theater in 2011, with a book by Jeff Whitty and the score by Jake Shears and John " JJ " Garden.
It was awarded six American Library Association awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller, Neil Gaiman, and Armistead Maupin, and has been incorporated into school curricula across the country.
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James Armistead Lafayette ( December 10, 1760 – August 9, 1830 ) was the first African American double spy.
An African American slave, Armistead was owned by William Armistead in Virginia during the American Revolution.
Armistead documented this information in written reports, delivered them to other American spies, and then returned to General Cornwallis's camp.
George Armistead ( April 10, 1780 – April 25, 1818 ) was an American military officer who served as the commander of Fort McHenry during the Battle of Baltimore in the War of 1812.
A nephew of Armistead's, Lewis Addison Armistead, was a well known Confederate General in the American Civil War who died at the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Damage which the canal incurred during the American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) was never completely repaired, though Armistead Lindsay Long had come in as Chief Engineer following his service in the war.
At Yorktown, James Armistead, a slave who had joined Lafayette's service with his master's permission, crossed into Cornwallis ' lines in the guise of an escaped slave, and was recruited by Cornwallis to return to American lines as a spy.
Cato appears again at the end of the series when he does not tell on an African American Patriot spy, James Armistead, whose spying was crucial to the American victory at Yorktown, which ends the war for American independence.

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