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Following eight years of training in Louisiana, Law became deeply involved in the civil rights movement, joining the Mississippi Human Relations Council, and edited the Natchez Jackson Diocesan newspaper from 1963-68, which kept him in close contact with major civil rights leaders...
...post-bellum days on a Savannah, Ga., plantation. For good ole boys, the best scenes are ante. Prewar Warren is a demure but determined plantation mistress arching through Georgia with much of her Mason-Dixon lines swelling out of Deep South decolletage. Beulah Land was actually filmed in Natchez, Miss., where plantations have been preserved and the Southern accent is so pervasive that the Manhattan-raised actress found it easier to slip into y'alls than into cum bersome ball gowns and pantalettes. Says she: "The sound was all around me. It's difficult to drop after working...
...defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves who outran the owners' dogs would usually stay in the vicinity and risk recapture to see their families again...
...Rousseau transmuted him into a red-skinned Cato or Brutus garbed in instinctive rectitude. And as he began to perish along the white frontier, the theme of racial destruction in a wild, vast landscape evoked lamentations from romantic artists who had never been there-especially from Delacroix, whose Les Natchez, 1824-35, is an American cousin to his Massacre at Chios...
Harvard advocate Poetry Informals. Meryl Natchez and Larry Rafferty will read from their work. Advocate House, 21 South St. 8, April 27. Free and free refreshments...