Word: chattel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dillard explains that Black English first began to take form during the period immediately before the Atlantic slave trade. As Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English traders began to comb the coasts of Africa looking for chattel, a number of Africans began to incorporate European words into their vocabulary. When the great slave trade began, blacks from many different language groups were thrown together in ships and packed off to the New World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that...
...again, this limited victory has not changed matters much. Harvard continues to view its tenants--and, indeed, most of the people of Cambridge--as chattel to be uprooted and driven out at will. Last spring's dispute over the use of the Treeland site illustrates nicely the arrogant, feudal paternalism with which Harvard manipulates Cambridge and its neighborhoods...
...course, had only themselves to blame. They, after all, had been the people who had constantly demanded that the supply of slaves be increased. They had lost their war with the North largely because so much of the South's capital was in the fatally non-negotiable form of chattel slavery. Moreover, fearing that any mobilization of the black population would lead to the formation of a hostile fifth column, the Confederacy failed to make any practical use of its major source of manpower...
...virtually nonexistent: McQueen, injured in the race last year, returns to the competition to have another go at it. Since the film makers appear to have been interested in constructing a kind of fictional documentary, most of the dialogue has been eliminated. What remains is either mundane, mechanical chattel-or pitiful profundities of the why-I-race variety. Visually, the film never gets out of low gear. There is not a single scene or shot that was not done first and better by John Frankenheimer in Grand Prix...
...people's lib. Whatever affects us will certainly affect a man equally, or more. Maybe if we got our way, fewer men would waste their lives in materialistic maneuvering, then die at 50 of heart attacks caused by fretting over their monumental responsibilities to the chattel and her children. Maybe he could find another role besides the great provider and she the great provided...