Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...SLAVE SHIP?Mary Johnston? Little, Brown ($2.00). David Scott happened to be so born that he quite naturally fought for the Stuarts at Culloden. For that culpable error in prenatal judgment he was arrested and condemned to be shipped as a political slave to Barbados or Virginia. David Scott, however, was a lad of spirit, decided against the King and the King's men, broke jail, was not recaptured for some time. Sent to Virginia, he worked in the forests and fields oi the new country in a capacity only nominally above that of the African slaves, his coworkers. Again...
...epochal importance in American literature. For the litterateur the charm of the South has been confined very largely to the Old South of pre-Civil War days. The days of great plantations, the old aristocracy with its cult of chivalry and hospitality, the caste system of master and slave, have furnished fascinating and rich material for American authors. Uncle Remus of Joel Chandler Harris and Uncle Tom of Harriet Beecher Stowe are among the immortal characters inspired by this period. Thomas Dixon, of contemporary fame, has drawn his material from the same source. But the Civil War destroyed...
Herr Doktor Jung, Germany's delegate to the League of Nations' White Slave Congress at Graz, Austria, charged that French authorities in occupied Germany had forced German municipalities to place German women and girls at the disposal of French troops for immoral purposes. Said Dr. Jung: "What other nation is in the frightful position that it is forced into prostituting its own womanhood at the behest of a foreign Power? The behavior of the occupation authorities is an outrage on civilization...
Messalina. Ennio was only a Persian slave who asked nothing but to be left alone with Ela, the little Greek girl. Roman life in 41 A.D., he found, was more complicated than that. He was too handsome. Before the picture was half unreeled the Empress and one of the most luxuriously affluent Princesses were contending for his favor. Finally, he smashed up his chariot in the great race in the circus. None of this narrative, even the smash, was dangerously exciting. Probing elsewhere for values, one finds the picture useful chiefly as a reincarnation of Latin life. The forum...
...Charles Jaggers, born a slave in the first half of the 19th Century, began preaching from fence corners, always on one text: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus" (Philippians 2:5). With some contributions, he established a mission; with others he took the gospel to the chain gangs. At the end of each year he took one cent salary. He was wont to say: "My services belong...