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cold rain drizzling outside and streaking his window pane. He wrote that memories leapt to life and “pierced my heart like a golden spear and riddled my breast like precious stones."

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"Act in the Living Present - The Life of Martin Robison Delany" - by Jim Surkamp


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MD: “I leave you here and journey on and if I never more return, farewell”
NARRATOR: Martin Delany finally gave up on America.

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His expulsion with two others from Harvard Medical School just because of skin color convinced him that the power of reason and merit alone did not in fact determine the country’s esteemed leaders. So, scraping just a few hundred dollars,

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he rented a crew and ship back to Africa, where his grandfather Shango had returned several generations before.

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His critics including Frederick Douglass, were legion. "You must stay here and fight for freedom," they told him.

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He certainly reflected on his already long life:

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the long road as one of five children in a freed family in Charles Town Virginia;


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and after that fleeing because they illegally learned how to read, followed by the many years as a physician’s assistant in Pittsburgh,

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and then editing two influential newspapers.


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Most of all he remembered as he perhaps gazed at the sperm whales that
wandered into those southern latitudes . . . Of the day he was walking

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the road to Pittsburgh in 1829 deciding - his head filled with
books and images of pharoahs and Africa - of making this pilgrimage in reverse back to Africa.

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“Land Ho!"

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NARRATOR: “The arrival of Martin Robison Delany in Liberia is an era in the history of African emigration, an event doubtless that will long be remembered by hundreds of thousands of Africa’s exiled children.


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Persons from all parts of the country came to Monrovia to see this great man.”

People cheering:
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Ridiculed and ignored in America for speaking -

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embraced by the thousands here for speaking - how strange.

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MD: “The regeneration of the African race can only be effected by its own efforts, the efforts of its own self and whatever aid may come from other sources; and it must, in this venture succeed, as God leads the movement and His hand guides the way.”


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“Face thine accusers, scorn the rack and rod and, if thou hast truth to utter,

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speak and leave the rest to God."

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But we pushed on to Abeokuta.


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Africa taught Martin Delany its mysteries.
MD: “The principle markets to see all the wonders

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is in the evening. As the shades of evening deepen,

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every woman lights her little lamp and, to the distant

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observer, presents the beautiful appearance of innumerable stars.”

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“But in the entire Aku country one is struck by the beautiful country which continually spreads out in every direction.”

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Africa also taught him its nightmares. . .
I read August 13th in the West African Herald:

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“King Dahomey is about to make the great Custom in honor of the late King Gezo.

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Determined to surpass all former monarchs, a great pit has been dug which is to

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contain human blood enough to float a canoe. Two thousand persons will be sacrificed on this occasion.

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The king has sent his army to make some excursions at the expense of some weaker tribes. The younger people will be sold into slavery. The older persons will be killed At the Grand Custom.”

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MD: “Whole villages are taken.”

“Farewell, farewell my loving friends, farewell. . .”

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The jasmine smells of Africa are tonight less fragrant than my scented memory of soft honey-suckled summer’s night breezes in Virginia long ago, and awaking to the mockingbird.

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NARRATOR: On April 10th, 1860 at Lagos, Martin Delany and Robert Campbell

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boarded ship for London and Birmingham

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to seek backers for a plan to build freedman’s cotton farms in the Niger
Valley.

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They would undersell, at the gold price of fourteen cents a pound, all the slave wrought cotton from the plantations back home.


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To make bales of cotton rot on the docks of Charleston and New Orleans as it were.


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MD: When I was growing up in Pittsburgh, my children’s age – I worked hours and hours inscribing with a fine needle the Lord Prayer –

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all of it – on the face of an English six pence like this one.

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The Kaaba (Arabic: 'DC9() al-Każbah IPA: [”ćlČkć•bP], English: The Cube)[1] is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam.[2] The Qur'an states that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham and his son Ishmael, after Ishmael had settled in Arabia.[3] The building has a mosque built around it, the Masjid al-Haram. All Muslims around the world face the Kaaba during prayers, no matter where they are.
One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim to perform the Hajj pilgrimage at least once in his or her lifetime if they are able to do so. Multiple parts of the Hajj require pilgrims to walk seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction (as viewed from above). This circumambulation, the Tawaf, is also performed by pilgrims during the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage).[2] However, the most dramatic times are during the Hajj, when, officially, about 6 million pilgrims gather to circle the building on the same day.[4][5]

1 Location and physical attributes
2 Black Stone
3 In the Qur'an
3.1 After Abraham and Ishmael
3.2 Before Muhammad
3.3 Muhammad
4 History
5 Cleaning
6 Qibla and prayer
7 Notes
8 References
9 External links
[edit]Location and physical attributes

The Kaaba is located at exactly 21.25.21.15°N 39.49.34.1°E inside the Masjid al-$ar
m ("The Sacred Mosque") in the center of Mecca. A large masonry structure in the shape of a cuboid, it is made of granite quarried from nearby hills. Standing upon a 25 cm (10 in) marble base that projects outwards about 35 cm (14 in),[2] it is approximately 13.1 m (43 ft) high, with sides measuring 11.03 m (36.2 ft) by 12.86 m (42.2 ft).[6][7]
Al-&ajaru l-Aswad, "the Black Stone", is located in the Kaaba's eastern corner. Its northern corner is known as the Ruknu l-ä*r
q+, "the Iraqi corner", its western as the Ruknu sh-Sh
m+, "the Levantine corner", and its southern as Ruknu l-Yaman+ "the Yemeni corner".[2][7] The four corners of the Kaaba roughly point toward the four cardinal directions of the compass.[2] Its major (long) axis is aligned with the rising of the star Canopus toward which its southern wall is directed, while its minor axis (its east-west facades) roughly align with the sunrise of summer solstice and the sunset of winter solstice.[8][9]


The Kaaba is inside the Masjid al Haram in Mecca
The Kaaba is covered by a black silk and gold curtain known as the kiswah, which is replaced annually during the hajj.[10][11] Two-thirds of the way up is a band of gold embroidered Qur'anic text, including the Shahada, the Islamic declaration of faith.
In modern times, entry to the Kaaba's interior is only permitted on rare occasions for a small number of guests. The entrance is a door set 2 m (7 ft) above the ground on the north-eastern wall of the Kaaba, which acts as the façade.[2] In 1979 the 300 kg gold doors made by chief artist Ahmad bin Ibrahim Badr, replaced the old silver doors made by his father, Ibrahim Badr in 1942.[12] There is a wooden staircase on wheels, usually stored in the mosque between the arch-shaped gate of Bank Shaybah and the well of Zamzam. Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone. The interior walls are clad with marble halfway to the roof; The marble is inset with Qur'anic inscriptions: The wall directly adjacent to the entrance of the Kaaba has 5 tablets inlaid with the inscriptions The top part of the walls are covered with a green cloth embroidered with gold Qur'anic verses. Caretakers anoint the marble cladding with scented oil used on the Black Stone outside.
There is also a semi-circular wall opposite, but not connected to, the north-west wall of the Kaaba known as the hat+m. This is 90 cm (35 in) in height and 1.5 m (4.9 ft) in width, and is composed of white marble. At one time the space lying between the hat+m and the Kaaba belonged to the Kaaba itself, and for this reason it is not entered during the tawaf. Some believe that the graves of prophet Ismail and his mother Hagar[2] are located in this space.
Muslims throughout the world face the Kaaba during prayers, which they perform five times a day. For most places around the world, coordinates for Mecca suffice. Worshippers in the Masjid al-Haram pray in Concentric circles around the Kaaba.


Drawing of the Kaaba. See key at left for details
Black Stone on the south-east corner.
Entry door, on the East wall 2.13 metres above ground level. It is accessed using a set of portable steps.
Rainwater spout made of gold. This was added in the rebuilding of 1627 after the previous year's rain caused three of the four walls to collapse.
Gutter, also added in 1627 to protect the foundation from groundwater.
Hatim, a low wall originally part of the Kaaba. Pilgrims do not walk in the area between this wall and the Kaaba. Some believe this area contains the graves of Haajara and Ismail.
Al-Multazam, the part of the wall between the Black Stone and the entry door.
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