天仙子·正本天靈修稟顯（19）

上海老城廂喬家路143號，為明末將領喬一琦故居，西側藥局弄口牆上釘著"最樂堂遺址"牌子。現"最樂堂"僅有遺跡可尋。明朝熹宗皇帝嘉獎其義，封贈喬為左府都督同知，襲陛四級，子本衛世襲百戶。乾隆皇帝在蘇州見到喬的後裔喬光烈時稱讚說:"汝家真文武世家也"。喬一琦遺像原供於藥局弄喬氏宗祠,"文革"初期遭焚。如今，在喬家路143號門前，尚存一塊方形花崗岩旗杆石，正麵刻三支戟，民間傳說寓意"連升三級"。 

                   Benedict XVI on 10 August 2019

                               Benedict XVI

                      Papa Benedetto XV and Pope Pius XI

Benjamin Harrison I (1594–1648) arrived in the Virginia colony around 1630, and Thomas Harrison (1 March 1619 – August 1682) was an English nonconformist minister. They both were the sons of Robert Harrison, a merchant, from Yorkshire, England. Isaiah Harrison (Born September 25, 1666 Chester, Cheshire, England), the son of Thomas Harrison, came to America on January 2, 1687.

Isaiah Harrison's granddaughter Bathsheba married Captain Abraham Lincoln and they were President Lincoln's grandparents.

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Benjamin Harrison V in 1772 joined a Virginia House of Burgesses committee, including Thomas Jefferson, which submitted a petition to King George, requesting that he abolish the slave trade. The King, however, rejected it.
The Harrison families eventually abandoned their slaveholding as the abolitionist movement began to take hold with the civil war. Future President Benjamin Harrison had already begun his political career in Indiana and joined the fledgling Republican party in 1856, then being built in opposition to slavery. Abraham Lincoln similarly joined that party, and made effective efforts to end slavery by his Emancipation Proclamation, the victory of his Union army in the Civil War, and his promotion of the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
-----From Wikipedia

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《1619》完全不提廢奴領袖林肯以廢奴為核心信條建立了共和黨，為了維護憲法，避免聯邦分裂，為了解放奴隸，他帶領北方與南方打了一場內戰，並在1862發表了《解放奴隸宣言》“The Emancipation Proclamation” 使南方聯盟的奴隸得到自由。他積極促成憲法第十三修正案以真實賦予黑人自由權利，以至於最後被人仇恨刺殺。-----by 啟木

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We are the American heartbreak —
The rock on which Freedom
Stumped its toe —
The great mistake
That Jamestown made
Long ago.
By Langston Hughes in 1967