Black Adams is a Black orator, self-styled psychologist and political leader of 1784 New York, apparent head of [[en/mirando-hacia-el-futuro|Mirando hacia el Futuro]] (“Looking Toward the Future”) and former leader of the Illuminati. He is introduced as “a Black man born here, under slavery, who freed himself from the English”.
| Type | Character |
| Place | New York |
| Era | June 1784 |
| Spanish entry | Black Adams |
Roles
- Orator. With Ryan Simp, also Black, he speaks on Black Friday: 22 June 1784, 7 p.m., at the New York seat of Looking Toward the Future.
- Promiser of destiny. He “is promising a future, a manifest destiny to this nation”.
- Mind technician. A self-declared psychologist, he holds that subjecting sophisticated minds to particular psychological conditions multiplies their creativity: the operating doctrine of Looking Toward the Future.
Several Arabs always accompany him.
Relationships
- Former leader of the Illuminati, “the organization you have just destroyed”, as the company that dismantled it was told.
- The Wall Street organization counts him among its two revolutionary leaders: “we have had very good dealings”.
- In Congress, White Adams and Red Adams are rivals of the informant who speaks of him.
Black Friday
His organization decides whether the Sons of Liberty declaration will let Black and Indian people recover their lands and throw off the yoke. A threat hangs over the day: “tomorrow there will be a massacre”.
Conflicting accounts
- One source calls him Black, born under slavery; another calls him a mulatto, “a certain Black Adams”.
Open questions
- His appearance, age, dress and voice, and his Arab escort’s number, origin and role, are not recorded.
- Whether a true head stands above him (“apparent” head) is unknown.
- Whether the Illuminati and Looking Toward the Future are one house, successive houses or one inside the other is unclear.
- His personal stance on the Sons of Liberty declaration is not recorded.
- Whether he causes, suffers or prevents the announced massacre is unknown.