Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Slave...
...father, writing to me from Southwestern China, has in custody a white girl, unable to speak a word of English but aware that she is the daughter of an American father and a Russian mother. For nearly 20 years she has been a slave, bought and sold among various Chinese families as necessity dictated. From Mukden, her presumable birthplace, where she was first placed in an orphanage, she has been carried over North and Central China to her present haven near the Burmese border. Undoubtedly, along with my own parents and all the population of unconquered China, she has endured...
...Navy contest and is still doing business at the same stand. Charlie Dennison is at home in the first boat, having left his No. 2 of last year to carry on activity at 4. Pat Merle Smith at 3 has been having no trouble in getting back to galley-slave form after a year...
...looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard of on 1st February at Puigcerdá." Marseille gangsters, always in need of women for the white-slave trade which supplies Africa and South American countries with prostitutes, were reported circulating in the camps looking for new personnel...
...Begun attempts instead a piece of reverent irony-the story of a French shepherd boy who, mistaking a joking troubadour for God, is inspired to start the first Children's Crusade to Jerusalem. He recruits tens of thousands of moppets, sweeps across France like a locust plague, accepts slave-traders' transportation to the Holy Land as a miracle, dies of fever as the flabbergasted Caliph of Bagdad good-humoredly pretends to surrender in the name of the Virgin Mary...