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Gabriel Camacho, a regional organizer for the American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge, said Monday that the Sensenbrenner bill contains “proposals that mirror the language of the 1850s Fugitive Slave Act” which made it a crime to harbor or support a runaway slave...
Gabriel Camacho, a regional organizer for the American Friends Service Committee in Cambridge, said Monday that the Sensenbrenner bill contains “proposals that mirror the language of the 1850s Fugitive Slave Act,” which made it a crime punishable by up to six months in prison to knowingly aid a runaway slave...
...generis world of oddballs who live on a mysterious island, presumably somewhere off the Atlantic coast of the U.S., sometime prior to the Civil War. The premise of the first book has Bertha Snodgrass, the grade-school-age daughter of the island's governor, deciding to buy a slave on the mainland and bring him back to do her chores. You can't fault Grady for a lack of daring. But the book's bizarre conflation of the horror of human slavery mixed with childish whimsy, including magical candy, a giant robot and little rock creatures, leaves the tone...
...workers are portrayed in ways that indicate their “American” values and are forced to drop their own flags for that of an adopted patria. “America” is depicted as a dreamland, practically paved with gold, while the average undocumented immigrants slave away, heartbroken after separation from their family and surroundings. Even the eyes of the most prosperous immigrants light up at the mention of their homeland, which has been left behind as they stay in the U.S. for the comforts they have found and the opportunities provided for their children.Today, people...
...abolitionist firebrand like Sharp. But he too had reason to know that blacks were human. His nephew had fathered a child by a black woman. The child, Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, lived with Mansfield and his wife. When war came, his much discussed decision in favor of the slave was taken by African Americans as another incentive to wish Britain well...