Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their hearts that it is not really defensible, and that the tide of events is against it. The result is a war in the South's own soul which many Northerners, who see the South only as stubborn and narrow-minded, fail to understand. A Southern Negro and former slave understood it. Said Booker T. Washington, the greatest Negro leader in U.S. history: "The outside world does not know . . . the struggle that is constantly going on in the hearts of both the Southern white people and their former slaves . . . While both races are thus struggling, they should have the sympathy...
...SLAVE MUTINY (312 pp. -William...
...arrived three years later, the survivor of an almost incredible adventure that had carried him through slavery and mutiny on the high seas to freedom and a place in history. The story of Cinqué and the band of enslaved Africans he led is told with competence in Slave Mutiny, by William A. Owens, a 47-year-old assistant professor of English at Columbia University...
...could not be a slave...
From this point to its end, the story is a play of ironies. Cinqué arrived home to find his village burned, his family sold into slavery. Wise now in the white man's ways but primitive as ever in his ethics, the black apostle of freedom turned slave runner to recoup his fortunes. He died old and famous in his country, and was buried, by his deathbed wish, in the cemetery of the little mission...