Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first I was treated as a captive and a slave.] One day a young French officer-he was not more than 22-was captured. . . . He was buried alive up to the neck. The women brought a great bowl of thick brown honey and poured it over his head...
...officials. What if the banker put this clerk in charge of a Florida boom scheme, which became such a prodigious success that Floridans begged the promoter to become their Senator? What if the banker ordered him to accept, so that, by his one passionate theft, a man with a slave's psychology became an Honorable, eligible for the highest office in the land, certain to have as fine a funeral as that enjoyed by a great rascal to whose pompous obituaries he had once listened in dismay? What if this story were written by a calm, an almost lugubrious...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...
...theatre for its plots, we shall thank God that some gracious chance has thrown Louis Lean Hall into the best pot-pourri. He, with an artistry unique in that cast, achieves the most fascinating transitions in play after play, from African brigand to English sea captain, from doctor to slave without the least show of strain. Long live his daily bread...
...could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it?if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it?and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that." Lincoln penned those lines in a letter to Greeley...