Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hercules" furled sail at Samos. The emissaries who were to have met Lord Byron were gone, one fled, the other captive. Ibrahim Pasha swept over Greece with fire and sword and torture, sleek with the returns which captives brought in the Egyptian slave-market. The English Lord fretted in stagnation...
...shrewd axe-blow at the roots of an aging tree. Mandoa, an (imaginary') independent country to the west of Abyssinia, was complacently self-sufficient. Small, poor but proud, it was a nominal matriarchate actually ruled by a small male aristocracy, supposedly Christian but actually savage, subsisting on the slave trade. When a U.S. cinema company was stranded for a while on Mandoan territory Mandoans got their first exciting taste of civilization. Old-timers wanted no more of it. but a few progressives, led by smart San Talal, began to dream of modernizing Mandoa. Meantime in London careful young Maurice...
...quickly richer on the bribes San Talal fed him for noninterference. The much-publicized jamboree, culminating in the state marriage of a Mandoan princess to an Abyssinian prince, went off as well as possible, even exceeded expectations when Ma'buta kidnapped a delegation of reformers investigating the slave trade. Maurice went back to England with the credit and Bill's girl, leaving Mandoa to relapse into the waiting hands of old Ma'buta. Bill and San Talal, no longer in power, watched their little beginnings sink into ruin, hopefully expected the day when they could start building...
...Coming, Author Bradford has turned the trick: neatly sidestepping the hoodoo of black-face minstrel-showmanship and the voodoo of Harlem, he has written a grown-up novel about Negroes of the Old South. Grammy (full name: Telegram) knew that his daddy, Messenger, and his mother, Crimp, were superior slaves. He could not figure out why their master should have sent them from New Orleans way up to his plantation on the Red River-especially since Messenger was such a wonderful coachman and Crimp such a good cook. But when Crimp's baby came, and it was yellow, everybody...
...some great Hebrew or Chinese work which I feel I shall be able to render with the necessary degree of understanding." Said he: "I do not under stand the psychology or philosophy of the Frenchman, German or Italian. Their history has nothing in common with the history of my slave-ancestors. So I will not sing their music, nor the songs of their ancestors. . . . The trouble with the American Negro is that he has an inferiority complex. He fails to realize that he comes of a great ancestry linked with the great races of the Orient. . . . What he should...