The thing about black history is that the truth is so much more complex than anything you could make up.
“Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.”
“Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.”