Word: slave
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...professionals," and when their salaries become more realistic in the light of today's world it is assumed they no longer care about their students or their schools? Some would have us believe that in order to be a good teacher you must be a fool or a slave...
...once a slave to Eros and a master of repression, Kepesh struggles between these two facets of his character. But this set pattern of restlessness, dissatisfaction and destruction continues through his other relationships. He marries Helen, a beautiful, adventurous, femme fatale and then proceeds to try to domesticate her. Their marriage dissolves over quarrels about burnt toast and lost letters. The wreckage of his marriage gives rise to a period of depression and unwilling chastity in David's life. A young teacher named Claire rescues him, and David feels he has found at last a sure and steady happiness...
...Riebeeck imported slaves from Mozambique, Madagascar, India, Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago; during the first few years of the settlement, he encouraged his men to marry slave women who had been converted to Christianity. There was also casual mating between visiting European sailors and local nomadic Hottentot women, and between slaves, half-breeds and the Hottentots. In 1682 the Cape colony rulers decreed that whites could not marry freed slaves of "full color" but could continue to marry half-breeds. Nonetheless, "irregular unions" continued...
...destruction of a people-though on a much smaller scale. Despite Paraguayan denials, TIME's sources believe that he serves as an adviser to the Paraguayan police and frequently travels to the remote Chaco region where the Aché Indians are being hunted down or reduced to slave labor through techniques that are chillingly reminiscent of those of the German work camps. A high Paraguayan police official boasted to a visiting investigator that his government uses "German methods" in dealing with the Indians...
Morrison's protagonist is also called Macon Dead-grandson of the freed slave. He is nicknamed Milkman because his mother suckled him until he was almost tall enough for his feet to touch the floor. Yet he remains starved as a child for the heritage his silent family cannot or will not provide. His one wish is to fly. "To have to live without that single gift saddened him and left his imagination so bereft that he appeared dull." At twelve, he meets an outcast aunt, Pilate Dead, who fills the role of tribal storyteller. She tells...