Ethiopian and African-American Relations: A Brief Timeline
by Andrew Laurence
1903 - 04
Henry Ellis, an African-American Wall Street broker, with assistance from Haitian Benito Sylvain, helps make possible the signature of a Treaty of Amity (Friendship) and Commerce between Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia and Robert P. Skinner for the United States. He personally congratulated Emperor Menelik on the Adwa victory which he saw, rightly, as a victory over colonialism.
The Treaty is duly proclaimed by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Dr. Joseph Vitalien of Guadeloupe becomes Emperor Menelik’s personal physician at this time.
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