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...Normally you know him as your HoCo co-chair, but tonight he’s your slave!” she said...
Meanwhile, the Torah portrays Abraham's domestic life as a soap opera. Convinced she will have no children, Sarah offers him her young Egyptian slave Hagar to produce an heir. It works. The 86-year-old fathers a boy, Ishmael. Yet God insists that Sarah will conceive, and in a wonder confirming Abraham's faith, she bears his second son, Isaac. Jealous of Hagar's and Ishmael's competing claims on her husband and his legacy, Sarah persuades Abraham to send them out into the desert. God saves the duo and promises Hagar that Ishmael will sire a great nation...
Then there is the matter of Isaac and Ishmael. Unlike the Torah, the Koran does not specify which son God tells Abraham to sacrifice. Muslim interpreters a generation after Muhammad concluded that the prophet was descended from the slave woman Hagar's boy, Ishmael. Later scholarly opinion determined that Ishmael was also the son who went under the knife. The decision effectively completed the Jewish disenfranchisement. Not only was their genealogical claim void, but their forefather lost his role in the great drama of surrender...
Robert Harms, a professor of African studies and history at Yale, won the first place Douglass Prize for his book about a French slaving voyage entitled The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade. Harms will receive a medallion and $15,000 while Stauffer will win a medallion...
...These four men spanned the social spectrum. Douglass was a slave, and Garret Smith was one of the richest men in the country. I braided four characters together by their friendship and their biracial correspondence, while exploring the broader possibilities and limits of reforming America,” he said...