The Negroes' Complaint by William Cowper

FORCED from home and all its pleasures
           Afric's coast I left forlorn,
To increase a stranger's treasures
           O'er the raging billows borne.
Men from England bought and sold me,
           Paid my price in paltry gold;
But, though slave they have enrolled me,
           Minds are never to be sold.

Still in thought as free as ever,
           What are England's rights, I ask,
Me from my delights to sever,
           Me to torture, me to task ?
Fleecy locks and black complexion
           Cannot forfeit nature's claim;
Skins may differ, but affection
           Dwells in white and black the same.

Why did all-creating nature
           Make the plant for which we toil?
Sighs must fan it, tears must water,
           Sweat of ours must dress the soil.
Think, ye masters iron-hearted,
           Lolling at your jovial boards,
Think how many backs have smarted
           For the sweets your cane affords.

Is there, as ye sometimes tell us,
           Is there One who reigns on high?
Has He bid you buy and sell us,
           Speaking from his throne, the sky?
Ask him, if your knotted scourges,
           Matches, blood-extorting screws,
Are the means that duty urges
           Agents of his will to use?

Hark! He answers!--Wild tornadoes
           Strewing yonder sea with wrecks,
Wasting towns, plantations, meadows,
           Are the voice with which he speaks.
He, foreseeing what vexations
           Afric's sons should undergo,
Fixed their tyrants' habitations
           Where his whirlwinds answer--"No."

By our blood in Afric wasted
           Ere our necks received the chain;
By the miseries that we tasted,
           Crossing in your barks the main;
By our sufferings, since ye brought us
           To the man-degrading mart,
All sustained by patience, taught us
           Only by a broken heart;

Deem our nation brutes no longer,
           Till some reason ye shall find
Worthier of regard and stronger
           Than the colour of our kind.
Slaves of gold, whose sordid dealings
           Tarnish all your boasted powers,
Prove that you have human feelings,
           Ere you proudly question ours!

Sources on Peter

Contemporary eye-witnesses whose testimony is or may be included in the sources:
Paul, Luke, Mark and Clement.

Sources mentioning Peter:
The Gospel of Mark (chapters 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14 and 16)
The Gospel of Luke (chapters 5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 18, 22 and 24.)
The Gospel of Matthew (chapters 4, 8, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 26 and 28.
The Gospel of John (chapters 1, 6, 13, 18, 20 and 21.
Acts (chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, and 15)
Galatians 2
First Letter of Peter
Second Letter of Peter
Letter of First Clement

Sources on Jesus of Nazareth

All of the following sources were recorded within a 105 of Jesus's birth. 

Contemporary witnesses whose testimony is contained in some accounts: Peter (an Apostle), John (an Apostle), James (a biological brother), Simon of Cyrene (partially carried Jesus's cross) and other Disciples. 

Main sources:
Gospel of Mark
Gospel of Matthew
Gospel of Luke
Gospel of John
Also mentioned in:
Acts, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians,
1 Thessalonians, 2 Thessalonians, 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, 1 Peter, 2 Peter, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, Jude and Revelation.
Annals by Tacitus (15:44)
Pliny's Letter to Emperor Trajan
Works of Lucian, the Death of Peregrine (para 10-11)

Nora Stone

Date created: 700-800 BC
Date found: 1773
Location found at: Southern Sardinia
Notes: This find is of interest to Biblical scholars as the location called "Tarshish" is referred to nine times in the Bible. 1 Kings mentions that King Solomon had a fleet of ships (in association with King Hiram of Tyre) which were called "Ships of Tarshish". In 1 Chronicles Tarshish is mentioned as descending from Javan (thought to be Greece). It is also mentioned in Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Jonah. In the Book of Jonah the prophet seeks to travel to west to Tarshish instead of east to Nineveh. Two locations have been suggested: southern turkey and southern Spain.

The tablet has been translated, as follows:

[a. He fought (?)]
[b. with the Sardinians (?)]
1. at Tarshish
2. and he drove them out.
3. Among the Sardinians
4. he is [now] at peace,
5. (and) his army is at peace:
6. Milkaton son of
7. Shubna (Shebna), general
8. of (king) Pummay.

Twelve Statements Hitler Made About Christianity

The following are paraphrases of what Hitler wrote about Christianity in his book Mein Kampf.
"Christianity" is used here to refer to both Protestantism and Catholicism.

1.) Politicizing Catholicism with a single party was a mistake. (Page 196)

2.) Jesus cleared the Temple because He hated the Jews. (Page 222)

3.) Back in the good old days (when Frederick the Great reigned) the Jews were regarded as foreigners and Geothe (a famous German writer) was horrified at the thought that Christians and Jews could marry legally. (Page 225)

4.) Christians more often marry Jewish women than vice-versa. The child of this relationship takes after the mother. (Page 228)

5.) Christianity is great not because it attempted to compromise with ancient philosophical ideas but because it preached and fought for its own doctrine. (Page 253)

6.) Pre-Christian Germans were not barbarians or uncivilized. (Page 282)

7.) Catholics and Protestants should stop wasting their time preaching to Africans who don't want to know about Christianity and don't understand it. It would be better to not let Christianity fade in Germany instead of focusing on spreading it to Africans. (Page 289)

8.) In order for Christianity to be accepted in Europe it had to destroy paganism. He wrote that "intolerance is an indispensable condition for the growth of such a faith." (Page 327)

9.) The advent of Christianity was the first occasion when spiritual terror was used "into the much freer ancient world, but the fact cannot be denied that ever since then the world is pervaded and dominated by this kind of coercion and that violence is broken only by violence and terror by terror." (Page 328)

10.) Catholics and Protestants are fighting each other--just like the Jews want. The Jews are the enemy of the Aryan race and Chistendom, and they are laughing. (Page 406)

11.) Catholicism and Protestantism aren't paying attention to the survival of the Aryan race. It doesn't matter if Catholicism or Protestantism triumphs over the other: what matters is if the Ayran race survives or dies off. (Page 406)

12.) Catholicism and Protestantism should focus on destroying Jewishness not each other. (Page 406)

Historical Figures Guide

This section provides all works on specific historical figures. The figure may be mentioned briefly or in detail.

Jesus of Nazareth (1st century AD)

Peter (1st century AD)

Biography Collection

This section includes works which are biographical in style.

Jesus of Nazareth (5 BC-30 AD)

Gospel of Mark (c. 55)
Gospel of Matthew (c. 65)
Gospel of Luke (c. 70)
Gospel of John (c. 90)

Flavius Josephus (37-100 AD)

Autobiography of Flavius Josephus (Circa 100 AD)