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| Wednesday, September 15, 2010 12:01AM | | | | The America(s) | Tags: African-American, History, Black History, The Industrial Revolution, The Great Migration, Pawnee Indian, Historical Fiction, Pittsburgh
| | | | It wasn’t until the Louisiana Purchase of 1804 that the restless giant yawned. Fattening himself off the bounty of the lands East of the Mississippi for the first few hundred years in his infancy, the baby giant’s hunger increased, especially in his slumber. Now, there was plenty of fresh new land for the ravenous giant to consume. So the man-child rolled over onto his massive back, allowed his hulking shoulder, shuddering bicep, long forearm and wrist, deliberately crushing everything beneath him, to extend a forceful hand westward and an accusatory finger. Scratching the surface of the land of the Pawnee Indians along the Platte River of Nebraska, the giant tasted it. And it was good.
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