Word: slave
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Captain H. E. Raabe, 73, an oldtime slave-&-ebony trader in the Solomon Islands, who once skippered a ship with Author Jack London in the crew, had set out by himself in the 40-ft. powered yawl Spindrift from Port Washington, L. I., bound for the South Sea Islands. A friend received a letter from him, describing an adventure, as follows...
...taught a few people under a tree in the open, had finally obtained an old log cabin. With the promise of enough lumber for the first building, Founder Jones called a public meeting. Result: a subscription list headed by $50 and 40 acres of land from an aged ex-slave named Taylor, first contribution to the Piney Woods Country Life School...
...story is told that before the Civil War, a Negro slave won his freedom and that of his family by foretelling the season for heavy freshets which destroyed all cotton and corn crops along the river, by observing the way certain species of wasps known as dirt-doubers built their nests under the river banks in the early spring...
...longer be called Negroes, but Browns, is the thesis of a study published last week by President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.* From 1619 when John Smith bought "twenty Negars" and thus introduced slavery to Anglo-Saxon America, until 1808 when the U. S. formally forbade slave importations, the Negroes came from diverse African stocks. From the beginning, the African races in America married among themselves and with Indians, and practically from the beginning acquired white blood. Comments Mr. Embree: "No special odium was attached to the begetting of mulatto children in slave days. It was regarded...
...performances of Heaven Bound, Nellie Davis plays the part of the Wayward Girl. The other actors are members of the Big Bethel, choir supplemented, outside Atlanta, by singers from other colored churches. St. Peter is Henry Mathews, a onetime slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action...