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Lè italyen kolon atent sou Abisinyen teritwa a ak te raze yon bat nan Batay la nan Adwa sou Mas 1, 1896, li te vin li te premye Afriken viktwa sou yon kolonyal Ewopeyen pouvwa a, ak viktwa yo tranble byen fò epi ki klè nan mitan konpatriyot yo nan nwa a dyaspora. "Pou la t' ap peze mas Adwa...ta vin yon kòz célèbre," ekri Gebrekidan, "yon metafò pou rasyal fyète ak anti-kolonyal yo rebelyon, k ap viv prèv ke koulè a po oswa tout cheve nan tèt teksti te fè pa gen okenn siyifikasyon sou intelijans ak karaktè." Byento, Afriken Ameriken ak nwa ki soti nan Karayib la Zile a te kòmanse nan fè wout yo nan Abyssinia. Nan lane 1903, te akonpaye pa Ayisyen powèt ak vwayajè Benito Sylvain, yon fortine Afriken Ameriken biznis gwo negosyan pa non an nan William Henry Ellis te rive nan Abyssinia yo voye bonjou pou ak fè zanmi ak Anperè Menelik. Yon Trete nan Lamitye (Amitye) ak Komès ant Anperè Menelik II nan nan Abyssinia ak Robert P. Skinner pou Etazini yo te siyen. Ellis rekonte nan Anperè a gwo Pwoklamasyon Emansipasyon nan Abraham Lincoln ak Amerik la enterè nan komès kòm opoze a kolonizasyon. Trete a se diman pwoklame pa US Prezidan Theodore Roosevelt.
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When Italian colonialists encroached on Abyssinian territory and were soundly defeated in the Battle of Adwa on March 1, 1896, it became the first African victory over a European colonial power, and the victories resounded loud and clear among compatriots of the black diaspora. “For the oppressed masses Adwa…would become a cause célèbre,” writes Gebrekidan, “a metaphor for racial pride and anti-colonial defiance, living proof that skin colour or hair texture bore no significance on intellect and character.” Soon, African Americans and blacks from the Caribbean Islands began to make their way to Abyssinia. In 1903, accompanied by Haitian poet and traveler Benito Sylvain, an affluent African American business magnate by the name of William Henry Ellis arrived in Abyssinia to greet and make acquaintances with Emperor Menelik. A Treaty of Amity (Friendship) and Commerce between Emperor Menelik II of Abyssinia and Robert P. Skinner for the United States was signed. Ellis recounts to the Emperor the great Emancipation Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln and America’s interest in trade as opposed to colonization. The Treaty is duly proclaimed by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.