Word: slave
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Sixty-seven years ago the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, saw Pastor Henry Ward Beecher* mount the pulpit, accompanied by a trembling nine-year-old Negress. Then, while many a woman became hysterical, while many a man shed tears, famed Abolitionist Beecher turned his pulpit into a slave-pen, his sermon into an auctioneer's harangue, asked his hearers to bid $900 for this fine piece of colored flesh- Sally Maria Diggs, commonly known as "Pinky." Last week the congregation of Plymouth Church saw its present pastor share his pulpit with a Negress. They heard him recall that...
...America in the Pacific", Professor Schlesinger, New Lecture Hall, History 88b Schiller March Meyerbeer Overture to "Rosamunde" Schubert Serenade Pierne Marche Slave Tchaikovsky Three Excerpts from "The Damnation of Faust" Berlios a. Minuet of the Will o' the Wisps b. Dance of the Sylphs c. Hungarian March (Rakoczy) A Music Box Liadov Children's Round and Dance of the Old Ladies from "The Convent on the Water" Caselia Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier A Comedy Overture Gilbert Molly on the Shore Grainger Stars and Stripes Forever Sousa
Please note inclosed editorial from the Star & Herald, Panama, R. P. which ties onto your comment (TIME, March 21, p. 13) regarding the Panama Canal Zone as "one of the chief headquarters" of the international traffic in "white slaves." Control of this traffic at the Canal Zone comes under the Quarantine Officers who are just as diligent against "white slavers" as they are against yellow fever and bubonic plague, and the records at Cristobal show that last year (I quote from a note from the Quarantine Officer, Dr. C. A. Hearne) there were deported "26 modistes or modistas...
From the League of Nations anti-slavery office it was announced during the week that H. H. Beglar Begi Mir bir Mahmud Khan, Wali of Kalat, cooperating with the Government of India, has abolished slavery in the Kalat district of Baluchistan, remote Indian province. Formerly male and female slaves have been so absolutely the property of their owners in Kalat that two mated slaves were sometimes refused even sustenance by their master, forced to shift for themselves, and then any children which they might manage to bring up were finally seized by the original master as they reached...
...masterpieces, Siegfried, The Last Laugh, Variety, have released what they herald as their supreme achievement, Metropolis. It is the name of a futuristic city, built on a gargantuan iron skeleton, with whole communities superimposed upon one another in prismatic vastnesses-the dwelling-place of men who live to slave for their own machines...