Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your issue of May 9, you caption a reference to "Slave Virginia" as "Yankee Common Sense...
...send wave on wave of indignation rolling through Middleburg, across Virginia and over the entire South. George Crawford became more than a "runaway nigger," for in him the South saw symbolized its right to administer criminal justice in its own way. The South remembers the fugitive slave law whereby a Negro might murder in the South and find asylum in the North. Below the Potomac there was wild talk of a sudden increase in lynching if the Lowell ruling became permanent. Only by force of arms could the South be compelled to put Negroes on its juries. The Scottsboro case...
...Governor Ely who declared: "Any fugitive will be deluding himself to think that Massachusetts will prove a refuge for all those who might be able to fight extradition along the lines of the Crawford case." Thus, in Federal Circuit Court, "free" " Massachusetts became the attorney for "slave" Virginia...
...Dred Scott, Missouri slave, sued for freedom on the ground that two years' residence with his master on free soil had made him a citizen. In 1857 the Supreme Court denied his plea, held the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. That decision stripped Congress of its power to pass on slavery in the territories, helped bring on the Civil...
Proud of their catch, the Chilean police boasted that it would lead to extermination of Argentina's renowned white slave ring, Zwi Migdal. Argentines were skeptical. The whole thing, they observed, is a matter of profits so huge that Zwi Migdal can well afford to pay bribes big enough to keep the traffic going. Not long ago a Franchucha testified that during her first week 402 men were shown into her room, paid not quite $3 each-or nearly...