Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soon in politics-first as a deputy county prosecutor and then, starting in 1963, as a member of the city council. He was soon baptized in the hazards of his profession. His enemies attempted to hook him on a drunk-driving charge; the trap might have worked except that Baptist Hatcher is well known to be a lifelong teetotaler...
...plans fail. The Tidewater land goes sterile and bankrupts Samuel Turner. He surrenders Nat to the cus tody of a Baptist minister-a caricature of ecclesiastical evil-who even tually sells...
True to the South's Protestant tradition, Nat's fundamentalism is based on the Old Testament. He quotes frequently the verses of Isaiah. With white people, he talks in a subdued nigger-rhetoric fitting for a pious black Baptist minister (which he is). With other houses slaves his tone is slightly more relaxed, and with field Negroes (whom he holds in disdain) it becomes much more Sambo-ish. The juxtaposition of Nat speaking in several of his roles can at times be very amusing, and at other times--as when he speaks in an inferior style before less intelligent white...
...having to use their outhouse. But, as one slave infomred him, "Yo' ass black jes' like mine, honey chile." In this way Styron shows how Nat's relationship with Samuel Turner was tormented and complicated; the condition became radically worse when Nat was denied his promised freedom by a Baptist preacher in whose hands Samuel Turner had entrusted...
Once he was Harlem's favorite leader, preacher and rogue. They winked at his womanizing and junketeering, packed the Abyssinian Baptist Church every Sunday to hear his baritone homilies. But seven months after the U.S. House of Representatives refused to seat him because of abuses of office, Adam Clayton Powell is beginning to become just a flamboyant memory to the 431,000 people he no longer represents...