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CelebritiesRe: Kerry Washington Weds Nnamdi Asomugha by niggadee(m): 4:13pm On Jul 04, 2013
Nnamdi is a toy boy for shagging a old slag.. her fanny juicy had been Drain by those white boys.. soz bro i got not respect for cheap sold out nigga like u.
CultureRe: Oba Of Lagos Visits Oba Of Benin by niggadee(m): 12:54pm On Jul 04, 2013
boths of them are distant relatives i'm not surprise
PoliticsRe: Civilian JTF, Boko-Haram In Gun Duel by niggadee(m): 12:44pm On Jul 04, 2013
how do you expect volunteers vigilante to fight boko haram without no Firearms.. you people are acting hard behind the computer chatting bullsh*t.. civilian JTF are good samaritan who risk their lives as volunteers to tackle insecurities in up north.
CelebritiesRe: Ruggedman Blasts Celebrities Over Silence In OJB False Donation Rumour by niggadee(m): 10:39pm On Jul 03, 2013
nigerian celebrities are desperate. They can't get the money any other way.they take out loan from financial company to support they false lavish lifestyle.
CelebritiesRe: Tonto Risks 15-yr In Jail For Weed Photos, NDLEA To Investigate by niggadee(m): 12:10pm On Jun 29, 2013
uploading Cannabis image on a social network in nigeria is not enough evidence to Prosecute. court will dismiss Ndlea allegations against her
Foreign AffairsRe: The Obamas' Trip To Former Slaving Port In Senegal (Pictures & Video) by niggadee(m): 8:40am On Jun 28, 2013
obama is playing Stupid Politician Tricks again
Foreign AffairsRe: Nelson Mandela Is On Life Support by niggadee(m): 11:15pm On Jun 26, 2013
oluface: He cant survive it. No be curse!
he's on unconscious but still alive there's little chance to make a decent recovery and there is a huge possibility he would not be able to function on his own.
Foreign AffairsRe: Nelson Mandela Is On Life Support by niggadee(m): 11:14pm On Jun 26, 2013
[quote author=oluface]He cant survive it. No be curse![/quote he's on unconscious but still alive there's little chance to make a decent recovery and there is a huge possibility he would not be able to function on his own.
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor In A Live Spiritual Battle With Juju Priest (Video) by niggadee(m): 11:03am On Jun 23, 2013
fake
PoliticsCesar Picton, The Black Slave Who Became A Respected Local And Wealthy Merchant by niggadee(op): 1:18pm On Jun 22, 2013
Coal Merchant
Born c.1755 Died 1836

In the year 1761 a British army officer named Captain Parr, who had been serving in Senegal presented John Philipps, 6th Baronet with a six year old African boy together with "a parakeet and a foreign duck". No one is quite certain how or why Captain Parr came into possession of the boy, although it is generally assumed that he purchased the boy from Senegal was one the major sources of slaves at the time; neither is it known why Parr decided to hand the boy over to John Philipps. As it happens the Phillips family were known abolitionists, and it may be that Captain Parr had either rescued the boy with the intention of handing him over to such a family, or had later been morally persuaded to do so on his arrival in Britain. But all this is of course speculation, and in truth no one can say anything with certainty of the boy's origins.

Although it seems most probable that the boy had been born and raised as a Muslim (being the dominant religion in the Senegal, he was baptised into the Church of England on the 6th December 1761 when he was given the baptismal name of Caesar, although he seems to have later preferred the variant of Cesar. As John Philipps was to note in his diary, Cesar was kitted out with a velvet turban costing 10s. 6d. in honour of the occasion, such expenditure signalling the fact that Cesar was to be treated as an honoured and valued servant, and indeed was never regarded as a slave whilst he was in Britain, no matter what his origins might have been.

Cesar spent the summer of 1762 at Picton Castle in Pembrokeshire being trained in his duties and subsequently become a particular favourite of Lady Elizabeth Philipps and her three daughters. After the 6th Baronet died in 1764, the women took up residence at Norbiton Place, a mansion house on the outskirts of Kingston-on-Thames. There Cesar appears to have become their principal servant, and when Horace Walpole visited the family in 1788, he was moved to record that "the sisters of Lord Milford ... have a favourite black, who has been with them a great many years and is remarkably sensible".

After Elizabeth Philipps died in 1788, shortly before Walpole's visit, the 7th baronet Richard Philipps, by then the Baron Milford, decided to sell Norbiton Place. His three unmarried sisters moved to Hampton Court and Cesar was left to fend for himself. He had however received a bequest of £100 in Lady Elizabeth's will, a fairly substantial sum of money at the time, which he used to acquire a coach house and stables at No.52 High Street in Kingston-on-Thames. Having adopted the surname of Picton, which he took from the family home at Picton Castle, he set up in business as a coal merchant, being required to pay Kingston Corporation the sum of £10 for the privilege.

Of course the Picton family had interests in the coal business back in Pembrokshire, and it may well have been that Cesar had acquired a certain amount of personal knowledge of the industry during his time in service. In any case his business appears to have prospered as he acquired further property, including a malthouse and a wharf on the Thames. Neither was he forgotten by the three Philipps sisters; Mary Philipps left him a further bequest of £100 at her death in 1801, and Cesar received another £100 in 1820, together with the further sum £50 and an annuity of £30 later in that same year following the death of the other two sisters.

However by this time it seems unlikely that Cesar had any need of such generosity. In 1794, only some six years after starting up in business, he felt sufficiently prosperous to move to a cottage in nearby Tolworth and to let out the Kingston properties, whilst in February 1816 Cesar moved again, this time to Thames Ditton, where he bought the property at 56 High Street for the reasonably colossal sum of £4,000. Indeed the move to Thames Ditton, seems to have signalled Cesar's retirement from business and spent the next twenty years enjoying the life of an affluent gentleman. He eventually died in 1836, when he was very likely in his early eighties, and was buried on the 16th June 1836 at All Saints' Church in Kingston, where he received in accordance with his instructions, a "plain but decently buried within the Parish Church, Kingston".

One indication of the prosperity of his later years is given by the fact that at the time of his death he was described as a man of "immense bulk", and that it was necessary to use a four-wheeled trolley in order to bring his body to the church. It was also necessary to use an arrangement of planks and rollers in order to manouevre his remains into the vault in the south aisle of the church, later marked with a floor plaque inscribed "CP 1836".

Cesar does not appear to have ever married, certainly his will mentions no wife or indeed children, although it does mention his "horse and chaise, two watches with gold chains and seals, brooches, gold rings and shirt pins, a tortoiseshell tea chest, and silver spoons and tongs". He gave instructions that mourning rings, to cost no more than five pounds each, should be given to sixteen named friends, and also left a number of portraits to his friend Thomas Bushell, including one of himself, although its whereabouts are now unknown. The principal beneficiary of his will turned out to be his god-daughter, Sarah Lock, and the wife of William Pamphilon who later became the Mayor of Kingston in 1850.

As a successful black immigrant to Britain in the days when skin colour was looked on as nothing more than a novelty, Cesar Picton was remembered long after his death. His property at 52 High Street in Kingston was for many years known as Picton House (although it now boasts the name of Amari House) as indeed was his property at Thames Ditton, until it was later renamed as Sunnyside House. The local authorities in Kingston still take a certain amount of pride in the fact that their town once boasted one of the country's earliest African immigrants, although they have since been forced to admit that the picture that they displayed for many years as being that of Cesar, was more likely that of Ignatius Sancho.

CelebritiesRe: Wande Coal Mock P-square Personally Video by niggadee(m): 7:58pm On Jun 21, 2013
op you got it wrong
Jobs/VacanciesRe: I Want To Join The British Army by niggadee(m): 11:16pm On Jun 20, 2013
learn to make decision for your self people here are bullsh*tter with such negative attitude.. do what you think best. military is an honorable profession and serving Her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth you and your family's will have better quality of life better housing,Incentives and allowances etc.. i wish you best of luck for your military career.
CultureRe: Why Do Nigerians Look At White People As Advanced Humans by niggadee(m): 10:05am On Jun 19, 2013
black race are the weakest link.100% black Christians believed Jesus and god are Caucasian . Christianity is originated from Middle East in the 1st century ad ask your self Dumb christian how can someone from middle east be Caucasian.. Religion Propaganda Is Cult Brainwashing.The Bible is a fraudulent pile it been Tampered by Caucasians authors to make them look superior and make you Negros look Dumb.. Evolution of Modern Humans and Early Modern Homo sapiens started from motherland wake up my beautiful black people.

Christianity EtcRe: Describe The Mental Image Of God You Had As A Child by niggadee(m): 11:15pm On Jun 18, 2013
manmustwac: Some white dude with long hair and a long beard
Bible God Image is False..Evolution of Modern Humans And Early Modern Homo sapiens Are Originally From Africa..God Is Black
Foreign AffairsRe: Obama's Trip To Africa Comes With A Hefty Price Tag (extra Security, Etc). by niggadee(m): 5:18pm On Jun 15, 2013
fck obama
Foreign AffairsRe: Nelson Mandela Is Dead,how True? by niggadee(m): 11:48pm On Jun 12, 2013
Vocaliser: I just read it from CNN site now he has been confirmed dead
Mandela responding better to treatment South African president says CNN site now
CelebritiesRe: Fatai Rolling Dollar Is Dead? by niggadee(m): 7:27pm On Jun 12, 2013
sleep well baba
CelebritiesRe: The Last Photos Fatai Rolling Dollar Took Before He Died by niggadee(m): 7:25pm On Jun 12, 2013
sleep well baba
EntertainmentRe: A Nigerian To Become First Black Marchioness In UK by niggadee(m): 12:26am On Jun 12, 2013
lord Marquess and her wife are racist t.w.a.t they never attend they son married.
TravelRe: Stealing At Murtala Mohammed Airport by niggadee(m): 11:26pm On Jun 04, 2013
brb
Foreign AffairsRe: 25 People Shot In 48 Hours In New York by niggadee(m): 7:43am On Jun 04, 2013
Afam4eva: American recruited German scientists? Who are Americans and where are they from? Did the Americans also recruit black slaves from Africa? What a joke.
Germany developed numerous new weapons during the war, including the first assault rifle in the world.first jet in the world, the Messerschmitt Me 262 in 1944. first cruise missiles (V-1) and rocket-powered ballistic missiles V-2..America is Great... because it stole all of Germany's technology .
Foreign AffairsRe: 25 People Shot In 48 Hours In New York by niggadee(m): 12:12am On Jun 04, 2013
shymexx: America can't compete with the Germans as well. Germans are a different breed of people. Forget about what happened post world war 2 - Germans are overly efficient in everything.
american engineers, scientists and technician germans are behind the whole things.. american recruit Germans scientists etc after WW2
PoliticsRe: The Tree That Killed People In Imo State (picture) by niggadee(m):
honestly they some demonic possession trees in Nigeria... i remember in 1997 when our family's traveled to ijebu for Bakra-Eid/Ileya Fiesta my two step brothers Cut Down a Tree in our compound garden and the next day boths of them fall seriously ill
Foreign AffairsRe: 25 People Shot In 48 Hours In New York by niggadee(m): 10:34pm On Jun 03, 2013
west always used their phony media to attack African and make us look miserable&terrible people on earth .. i've seen things here that are horrific,disturbed and disgusting but still their covered up the whole sh*t and hide the crime statistics... a lady that live in my street 25 yrs old Yvonne walsh was murder with her seven-month-old child yesterday morning.
CelebritiesRe: Hot Or Foolish by niggadee(m): 7:28pm On Jun 01, 2013
she'shot but she ain't got swag
CelebritiesRe: ................ by niggadee(m): 4:29pm On Jun 01, 2013
omotola still look gawjus without make up
Music/RadioRe: Kirk Anthony Of Smooth FM Is Dead by niggadee(m): 4:26pm On Jun 01, 2013
sleep well

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