Leighton Harris

The late insurrection in Southampton has greatly excited the public mind, and led to a thousand idle, exaggerated and mischievous reports. It is the first instance in our history of an open rebellion of the slaves, and attended with such atrocious...

P. Ka Isaka Seme won First Prize for the Curtis Medals Oration, April 5 1906 at Columbia University where he delivered this oration on the subject "The Regeneration of Africa". His oration was later printed in the Colored American Magazine of New York...