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...many critics, Roots was an Uncle Tom's Cabin for television. The short series included a number of unusually graphic scenes: the tribal rite of circumcision, the torturous voyage from Africa aboard a slaver, whippings, rapes and even the hatcheting of Kunta Kinte's foot. For many black viewers, Roots succeeded in putting flesh on the bones of their Afro-American heritage. "We all knew what slavery was, by hearsay and by family tradition," noted Boston Journalist Robert Jordan. "But this put all those feelings in living color where you've got to believe them." Said Little...
Though the first roulette wheel will not spin for at least a year in Vegas East, even New Jerseyites outside Atlantic City are starting to slaver over the promised tourist bonanza. For?say the prophets?it will not only revitalize the old burg of Miss America and Monopoly but also return to the state nearly $18 million in new tax revenue by 1980 and more than $35 million by 1985. No one, of course, is talking about 1984, the year of George Orwell's novel of the superstate Oceania in which betting for "some millions of proles was the principal...
...encounter has aroused new interest in both the author and her first book of poems, originally published in London in 1773 and now on sale in the Colonies. Born in Africa (she does not know exactly what part of Africa), she was brought to America by a slaver in 1761. She was then seven or eight years old, by the estimate of John Wheatley, a prosperous Boston tailor, who bought the thin little waif with the idea that she should be trained to attend his wife Susannah. In a testimonial letter to the publisher, Wheatley writes: "Without any assistance from...
...Scarred old slaver know...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...