"the Run Away Slave Triathalon Competition" & "the Run Away Slave Ultra-Triathalon Competition"

[Mr Theodore Marvin Bell]

        I, Mr.Theodore Marvin Bell, am in the infancy stages of creating a  multi-city/multi-Ghetto US Triathalon competition entitled "The Run Away Slave Triathalon Competition", and "The Run Away Slave Ultra-Triathalon Competition".

     

 

 (1st Phase : Time & Date/ Copyright "Business Proposal" thru "SmileyandWest.com"      

 

                        1st) "The Run Away Slave Triathalon Competition"   

                                                                    &

                  2nd)  "The Run Away Slave Ultra-Thriathalon Competition"

 

 

1st) The race would compose the elements of a modern day "Freedom Trail".

 

ex: The Black Heritage Trail

              is a path in Boston, Massachusetts, winding through the Beacon Hill neighborhood and sites important in American black history.

In 1783, Massachusetts became the first U.S. state to declare slavery illegal — mostly out of gratitude for black participation in the American Revolutionary War. Subsequently, a sizable community of free blacks and escaped slaves developed in Boston, settling on the north face of Beacon Hill, and in the North End. Boston was long considered a desirable destination for southern black slaves escaping slavery via  the Underground Railroad.

        The Underground Railroad

              was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.^[2] The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives.^[3] Various other routes led to Mexico or overseas.^[4] While an "underground railroad" running south toward Florida, then a Spanish possession, existed from the late 17th century until shortly after the American Revolution,^[5] the network now generally known as the Underground Railroad was formed in the early 19th century, and reached its height between 1850 and 1860.^[6] One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad".^[6] British North America, where slavery was prohibited, was a popular destination, as its long border gave many points of access. More than 30,000 people were said to have escaped there via the network during its 20-year peak period,^[7] although U.S. Census figures account for only 6,000.^[8] The Underground Railroad fugitives' stories are documented in the Underground Railroad Records. 

( www.wikipedia.org)

     Races would begin in the Ghetto's of various cities (such as Roxbury, Harlem, Southside Chicago, Watts, Liberty City, SE Washington DC, etc.,...)

     Races will be both multi-day competitions and single-day "basic" triathalon competitions; both would include elements of a "basic triathalon" swimming, cycling, running, yet, multi-day competitions would also, or could potentially, include kayaking, repelling, rock-climbing, fishing/hunting and camping.  

     Races would illustrate and hopefully instill within all competitors of the Determination,Will-Power, and Endurance necessary or required for a Slave to Escape to Freedom.