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...Loud (H) d. David Freedmen...
...student of Afro-American history I find Mr. Conway's short-sighted patemalism disturbingly reminiscent of that of many Northern whites of the early nineteenth century. Claiming to represent the interests of Black people, these men fought the abolition of slavery because they felt that the resulting freedmen would be worse off than they had been as slaves. The parallel becomes still more striking when one remembers that in the meantime, ex-slaves such as Frederick Douglass fought vehemently for abolition. Just as these Northern whites chose to ignore Douglass (no doubt feeling that they knew better than...
...class respectability in a Midwestern town. Song of Solomon will inevitably be compared with Roots. But any comparison must end with the superior quality of Morrison's imagination and prose. Her fictional family is stuck with the portentous name of Dead, the result of an error at the Freedmen's Bureau in Virginia in 1869. "The man behind the desk was drunk," explains one of the Deads. "He asked Papa where he was born. Papa said Macon. Then he asked him who his father was. Papa said, 'He's dead.' The Yankee wrote...
...early months of the struggle with England, especially in New England, many Negroes fought in the colonial forces, and it was informal policy to offer freedom to any slave who joined a muster. Since early this year, however, the Congress and General Washington have banned Negroes (slaves and freedmen alike) from the Continental Army-the only official exceptions being black men who have already served. The various colonies have followed suit, except for Virginia, which still permits all free men to serve in its militia. The immediate reason for the ban is to discourage slaves from leaving their masters...
Grave Necessity. New York City's nonsectarian hospitals almost unanimously reported that they would continue to perform abortions for women up to 20 weeks pregnant, or later if there is grave medical necessity, subject to the safeguards established by the state. At Washington's Freedmen's Hospital, Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital and Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, the reaction was the same. In Chicago, leading OBG services conceded that they would take more care to establish the length of gestation-but otherwise, no change. In California, where a 20-week law is in effect, there...