Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eight children as a likely extortion victim, Lois Thompson could not explain. Neither could anyone else. Daniel Shaw politely denied the whole story, said he hardly knew the girl. But as defense attorneys pointed out, he had admittedly sojourned in San Francisco "which is the headquarters of the white slave business" and in Illinois "where John Dillinger and his gang had their hideouts." Anyway, concluded one attorney, he was probably a Japanese...
...white, colonnaded Hermitage mansion, slave quarters and other plantation buildings were purchased by Henry Ford last March for $10,000. Section by section the century-old brick structures were dismantled, barged down the Savannah River, up the Ogeechee to become the seat of the 75,000-acre domain which Mr. Ford has pieced together from 30 antebellum plantations for a winter home in Bryan and Chatham Counties...
...Black Reconstruction, Negro-freeing Lincoln is overshadowed by Negro-loving Thaddeus Stevens. Grant stands out as less impressive than an ex-slave abolitionist named Douglass, and a crowd of strangers shoulders familiar figures from the scene. If the book has a personal hero, it is Charles Sumner of Massachusetts who talked much of the Negro in the Senate but refused to hobnob socially with him outside. Yet if readers remain immersed in Du Bois's murky history until their eyes have grown accustomed to its gloom, if they are willing to feel their way cautiously through a tangled thicket...
...without argument his thesis that Negro slavery constituted one of the gravest problems the U. S. faced after the Revolutionary War, will be startled to learn that early U. S. leaders admitted they could visualize no solution, shocked at Du Bois's account of the commercial breeding of slaves that followed the Constitutional end of the slave trade (1808). He holds that the South "turned the most beautiful section of the nation into a centre of poverty and suffering, of drinking, gambling and brawling; an abode of ignorance among black and white more abysmal than in any modern land...
...Author, now 67, published his first book, The Suppression of the Slave Trade, almost 40 years ago, considers it "not entirely unreadable" today. Of mixed Dutch, French and African blood, Author Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Mass., educated at Fisk University, Harvard and the University of Berlin, has taught school and served for 14 years as professor of economics and history at Atlanta University. Famed among Negroes as editor of The Crisis, which he founded in 1910, Author Du Bois became widely known beyond intellectual circles of his own race as an executive officer of the National Association...