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...Republic. It was sung at his express command and in homage to the honorary U.S. citizenship granted him in 1963. It was also symbolic of his lifetime dream of a closer union between the two nations whose blood flowed in his veins. The martial thunder of the old abolitionist hymn, with its stern New England pieties, may at first have sounded startling in Christopher Wren's graceful English Renaissance church, but it was one with the Churchillian spirit-militant, sonorous, confident of being in the right. The church that symbolized the survival of the British nation and the hymn...
...impelled by a declared charter interest in politics, the Atlantic strove to break out of its parochial mold. It took a sturdy abolitionist position, endorsed Lincoln's election in both 1860 and 1864. It risked the wrath of its readers in 1869 with an article by Harriet Beecher Stowe recounting Lord Byron's incestuous relations with his sister -and spent the next 40 years recovering the 15,000 circulation that it lost as a result. But it could be stuffy too. In an 1882 article on "The Prominence of Athleticism in England," it claimed that Americans could...
Burden remembers the time when her abolitionist father took her to the family graves and told her: "Your grandfather and brother are lying there, murdered not by one white man but by the curse which God put on a whole race before your grandfather or your brother or me or you were even thought of. A race doomed and cursed to be for ever and ever a part of the white race's doom and curse for its sins. Remember that. His doom and his curse. Forever and ever. Mine. Your mother's. Yours, even though...
Pretending to be an Abolitionist, he talked slaves into running away with him, then sold them to another slaver. If the slave balked, Murrell killed him. At one point, Murrell spent a year in jail for horse stealing, where he was branded, whipped and pilloried. He came out determined to take his revenge on the whole South by fomenting a slave revolt-and getting some loot for himself during the fracas. He boasted: "I'll have the pleasure and honor of knowing that by my management I have glutted the earth with more human gore, and destroyed more property...
Wednesday, November 20 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* A dramatic study of the year 1863, concen-rating on the words of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass, with Ossie Davis playing Douglass...