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Books such as Toni Morrison's novel Beloved can be valuable resources in studying the emotional ordeals of slave women, a Wellesley history professor told about 100 people at the opening speech last night for Women's History Week.
In a speech entitled "History and Rememory: An Historian Looks At Toni Morrison's Beloved," Professor Jacqueline Jones said it is normally difficult for historians to speculate about the lives of slave women because primary sources written by whites or escaped slaves are unemotional and factual.
Beloved was chosen as the topic of the first speech as a transition between Black History Month--February--and Women's History Month, Hathaway said.
Strangely enough, those people who have called Jeff to inquire about freeze- drying a human being have been asking not about a beloved, deceased relative but about themselves. They are people who are less interested in avoiding conventional burial and cremation than they are in striving for immortality.
Just look at the New York Knickerbockers. Long-suffering Knick fans have watched their beloved five rise from the Atlantic Division cellar to the attic loft in just three years, CBA rejects like Ken "The Animal" Bannister--who once shot a free throw off the side of the backboard--have...