Word: slave
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November 12--Colonel Thomas Went-worth Higginson '41 on "Reminiscences--Fugitive Slave Days in Boston...
...This was the situation while the slave states were seceding one after another, and while politicians and capitalists were counseling submission to the claims of the slaveholders, in order to retain them in a Union which they had grown to detest, because they no longer controlled its central government. But when the northern states saw the south rushing into rebellion against our government, in order to set up an aristocracy of color and section, that deep instinct of self-preservation brought the north almost unanimously together in defense of the imperiled nation. Its instantaneous effect was to scatter the temporizing...
...Overture, "Phedre," Massenet 3. Selection, "Romeo and Juliet," Gounod 4. Waltz, "Obersteiger," Ziehrer 5. Fantasia on "I Pagliacci," Leoncavallo 6. Serenade, "Contes d'Hoffmann," Offenbach 7. Malaguena, Moszkowski 8. Selection, "Carmen," Bizet 9. Overture, "Si j'etais Roi," Adam 10. Waltz, "Morgenblatter," Strauss 11. Selection, "Babette," Herbert 12. March, "Slave," Tschaikowsky
Slavery and the slave trade, Professor DuBois said, began with the appearance at Lisbon in 1442 of 30 negro slaves These excited the cupidity of the Portuguese traders, who realized the superiority of negro labor over Indian labor in working the gold mines of America. The slave trade was then successively taken up by the Dutch, the English, and finally in 1807 by the Americans, the transportation of slaves growing from several thousand in 1450 to over 60,000 in 1790. The present condition of the negro race is due in great measure to the past terrible brutality...
Professor DuBois is undoubtedly the most thoroughly trained and highly educated member of his race in America, and has already made himself an authority on several historical and sociological questions. His doctor's thesis, a monograph on slave trade, was printed as one of the "Harvard Historical Studies." He has written on the condition of the negro in Philadelphia, and in Georgia and other parts of the South. His main literary work. "The Souls of Black Folk," is one of the most striking books that has been written recently by any Harvard graduate, and marks...