Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of the "Mostellaria" deals with the adventures of Philolaches, scapegoat son of a rich Athenian. In his father's absence the young man has borrowed money to free the slave girl Philematium in whose honor he has decided to give a little entertainment for his friends...
...Notwithstanding edicts, there is no Ethiopian chief or great house to which slaves of both sexes have not been furnished, beginning with the imperial palace. The authority of Ethiopian personages is measured by the number of slaves they possess. The very judges charged with the slavery question are themselves the possessors of slaves. Customs posts close their eyes and let slave caravans pass. While they talk abolition of the slave trade, they continue to pay taxes with slaves...
...between the States (or the War of the Rebellion) brought freedom to tall, blue-black Daniel Joseph Jenkins, born a slave in 1861 and soon orphaned. Turned off a plantation near Charleston, S. C., he said: "I took God for my guide. I got a job on a farm and got two pounds of meat and a quart of black molasses a week to live on." One day he came upon half a dozen shoeless, shivering pickaninnies huddled by a railroad track. He gave them his last dollar...
Convening at Nancy last week members of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which recently cracked down on U. S. "Slave Dancer" Joan Warner (TIME, July 22), took ap proving note of Jose Laval's engagement, adopted a resolution of "hope that after her marriage to Count René de Chambrun she will have many children...
TIME, July 22, under France-"Population v. 'Poetess'," displaying the picture of Joan Warner, "Slave Dancer," sans fan, brassiere or pants, petite but well shackled, holds up your seemingly established principle: no fear for the nine P's of the press-public ipinion, president, pope, potentate, priest, preacher, police, prince, or pauper...