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Negroes participated effectively in the redefinition of democracy after the Civil War. One reason why slaveholders had opposed emancipation was the fact that they had not formulated a plan for the place of freedmen in American society. During Reconstruction, Negro members of state conventions and legislatures supported measures to abolish the post-Civil War Black Codes by which the all-white legislatures had attempted to keep the freedmen as nearly as possible in their former servile status...
...settled in the 19th century. The idea was to adopt a new international convention against "slavery, the slave trade and institutions and practices similar to slavery," but this week as the conference drew to a close, it proved impossible for nations of the world to cooperate effectively to abolish the most primitive form of human bondage...
...have to be boss." He was backed to the hilt by wispy, sick-looking Hubert Smith (no relation), chief warden at Rock Quarry since 1951. Declared the warden: "This leg-breaking was planned by these men to get public sympathy to bring pressure on the state to abolish this camp...
...trading of H-bombs followed by a "broken-backed" struggle for recovery, but they now accept the doctrine of U.S. Admiral Arthur Radford and other top British and U.S. airmen that the first big blow will settle things. The British therefore want to concentrate on guided missiles. They would abolish first the Fighter Command and then the "interim" long-range jet bombers when missiles are perfected; they would confine the Royal Navy largely to a convoy force of anti-submarine vessels, and the Land Army to a mobile ground force equipped to fight "brushfire wars...
...attentively while Bulganin pointed with pride to the nation's industrial output-up 12% over the first half of 1955-and viewed with alarm the disappointing performance of the coal and oil industries. He promised to reduce the number of women employed as heavy laborers, and eventually to abolish heavy work for women altogether. The delegates hushed the quietest and then applauded the loudest, however, when Bulganin proposed a democracy-style election-year special-big boosts in Soviet pensions for men over 60 and women over 55, with bonuses for widows, underground miners and ex-servicemen "to raise political...