Word: slaver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then abandoned poetry-and his homosexual menage with Poet Paul Verlaine. During the next 18 years, until his death in 1891, he left only traces of wanderings that took him to Stuttgart as a teacher, to Java with the Dutch army, to Abyssinia as a trader, gunrunner and, probably, slaver. Now James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower) has come down from the mountains long enough to try to fill in the gaps. In his fictionalized biography, Rimbaud becomes Claude Morel; Charleville, his home town in the Ardennes, becomes Cambon; and Verlaine becomes Maurice Druard...
Short of cash but obviously enjoying his work, Harrison often modeled for pictures himself, posing as everything from a white slaver (with pith helmet) to an irate husband spanking his wife. On one project for one of his magazines, Harrison was picked up by New Jersey police (and released) for taking pornographic pictures: he had driven a carload of models to a Jersey golf course and had started taking pictures of them cavorting across the fairways half-nude...
...Economic and Social Council committee on forced labor sent out a questionnaire urging all member nations to report on the extent of slavery in their territories. Loftily denying the existence of such a horrid thing, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia never answered the questionnaire. Anti-Slaver La Graviére hopes his own nation will put the problem before the U.N. General Assembly...
Cinqué's great adventure began when three husky bucks leaped at him from the brush beside the trail and carried him off to be sold to a Spanish slaver. From the Spanish barracoons he was shipped to Cuba, and there sold with 48 other Negroes, many from his own tribe, to a Señor Ruiz. Ruiz loaded his human goods aboard a schooner named Amistad (Friendship), Captain Ferrer commanding; later a Señor Montes took passage. On June 27, 1839, the schooner weighed anchor and headed eastward along the coast of Cuba...