Word: antebellum
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...moved by "Walk Through Darkness" by David Anthony Durham (Doubleday: May), giving it a starred review. "Powerfully written and emotionally devastating, this new novel by Durham ('Gabriel's Story') tells the parallel tales of two men in antebellum America: William, a young fugitive slave, and Morrison, a white man hired to track him down.? In the thrilling climax, Morrison reveals an unexpected tie that binds him to William and makes a gesture that he hopes will redeem his sins. Durham's writing is forceful and full of startling imagery as he testifies to the courage (and sometimes the ambivalence...
Where an individual farmer cannot sell his small crop to Nestle or Starbucks, a middleman can collect enough coffee to sell. Many of these coyotes, however, are manipulative—acting simultaneously as loan sharks for the small coffee growing families in a manner reminiscent of sharecroppers in antebellum America...
...became a 12-hr. ABC miniseries that broke ratings records and gave Americans of all shades a serious lesson in the horror of slavery. The event is recalled in an NBC special (this Friday) and the series' DVD release. Sprawling and stolid, Roots today evokes two vanished eras: the antebellum South, when blacks could earn dignity but not freedom; and those eight wintry nights when a whole nation could sit, rapt and appalled, before the communal...
...moral case that must be made as we seek justice. If the U.S. once “harbored terrorists who kept slaves,” does that mean we must forgive states that have not yet reached our exacting standards of morality? The speaker went on to quote an antebellum speech of Frederick Douglass, which attributed to America “crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages.” Though our history is flawed, our past mistakes must not prevent us from taking the proper actions today. Equivocating on a subject of such great importance runs...
Hand is located in downtown Columbia near the statehouse, and the school's environs include tranquil blocks of sweeping antebellum porches and weeping wisteria. About half of Hand's 960 students, many of them well off and white, hail from these streets. The other half, many poor and black, live literally on the other side of the railroad tracks, some in crumbling shanties that didn't have running water until five years...