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...professional genealogist who traced Gates’ ancestry, Jane E. Ailes, will undertake this new project by comparing the names of the 80,000 soldiers who applied for pensions following the Revolutionary War to census data, which listed individuals as being white, a slave, or a free colored person...
Johnson published his first book—”Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market”—about the inner workings of 19th century slave markets. The piece, for which Johnson garnered multiple awards, is a “pioneering study” that draws upon the slaves’ own narratives to divulge the strategies they used to manipulate the market, Gordon said...
When Astaire, in Swing Time, performed the Bojangles of Harlem number, he was paying tribute to Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, tap master extraordinaire and the prime exponent of a dance form developed on slave plantations and in vaudeville halls. Three of Robinson's aged contemporaries--Bunny Briggs, Chuck Green and Sandman Sims--still hoofing in 1979, were the stars of George T. Nierenberg's intimate documentary about a challenge dance at a Harlem nightclub. Their story is poignant, their dexterity poetic, their legacy immense...
...incidents of Roosevelt's presidency represent his disappointing legacy on race. The first was his invitation to black educator Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House-an act of political courage at the time. Washington, a former slave and the founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, was, in Roosevelt's view, "the most useful, as well as the most distinguished, member of his race in the world." On the first day of his presidency, Roosevelt sent a note to Washington inviting him to the White House to discuss suitable candidates for patronage appointments in the South...
...appears in Wordplay, mourns that he is forbidden to use vowel-rich words like urine and enema. (I'd guess that somebody somewhere has created R- or X-rated crosswords - English is as at least as rich in obscenities as it is in four-letter words for Irish slave - but I haven't seen them...