Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line, and must have gravitated down as well as out and upward. On the other hand, miscegenation in the South was no mere rumor. The masters of the great plantations and farms, and their menfolk generally were not insusceptible to the charms of the better-favored females in the slave quarters. Were these by-blows all shipped to the North...
Crafty Emperor. The brave show recalled a brave history. In the decade before the real battle, 400,000 Haitian slaves had risen against their 40,000 French masters and beaten them in fighting so bloody that the population dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...
...that brought the name of Spottswood Boiling before the U.S. Supreme Court is in no sense new. Where and how the Negro should be educated has been in dispute in the U.S. ever since Thomas Jefferson wrote that "all men are created equal." Before the Civil War, teaching a slave to read was a crime punishable by imprisonment in some Southern states. But after the war, there was a crusade to raise the freed slave's status. It was led by two white men: Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania and Charles Sumner of Massachusetts...
...pact is a pledge which binds us to the U.S. To ask its denunciation is only a Communist slogan . . . What do the workers know about the military pact? What they say is only a line imported from behind the Iron Curtain, where there are ten million slave workers...
...Harvard '29, and now publisher of the Boston Post, ran one of his front page editorials. He said: "The world, by and large, are of the opinion that at any given time in the course of history, it is not possible to predict the future doings of the Kremlin slave-masters. The world believe that until events...