Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Certificat Avancé from France's Sorbonne, has a scholar's command of Latin, French and Spanish and a reading knowledge of German and Portuguese. Now head of the modern language department in North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack (N.J.) Board of Education...
...poet who wrote: "Think like a free man and you will not be a slave." and "All that defiles a man comes from within." To St. Paul, he was the only pagan dramatist worthy of quoting: "Evil communications corrupt good manners...
...reach the dueling ground until page 143. having lost his way in a maze of flashbacks intended to introduce the reader to the large, and largely predictable, cast. There is the weak younger brother who breaks his stern daddy's heart; the high-strung mother who fears a slave insurrection; the "giddy, harum-scarum" little sister; the coldly beautiful woman who spurns the hero and marries money; and inevitably, a willful, head-tossing, foot-stamping Southern belle named Arabella, who insults John Bottom-ley for 443 pages and then, with "the tears tangled in her thick eyelashes." damply confesses...
...Sardauna is a direct descendant of the fabled Fulani Imam who in 1802 launched the holy war that eventually brought northern Nigeria to its knees. In 1900 the British proclaimed the region a protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around...
Know Thy Place. When Tubman took over in 1943, just a little less than a century and a quarter had passed since 88 former U.S. Negro slaves, backed by President James Monroe, the Congress of the U.S., and an idealistic organization called the American Colonization Society, landed on the Pepper Coast of Africa to set up a new nation. Except for Haiti, Liberia was the only Negro republic in the world, but that was about its only distinction. The descendants of the first U.S. settlers formed a haughty aristocracy of "Americo-Liberians" who lived along a 40-mile stretch...