Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still common in the Empire of Abyssinia is human slavery. Every now & then bold subjects of His Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie stage a slave raid into adjoining territory. Last week they raided Britain's Kenya Colony, carried off a fine herd of Kenya women & girls into slavery, left 150 Kenya men dead in their villages...
...bomb Abyssinians into letting Kenya alone. Obviously, too, His Majesty's Government cannot afford to police the whole Kenya frontier. What to do? Staring His Majesty's Government in the face was the fact that over 1,000 Kenyans have been killed this year by Abyssinian slave raiders...
Britain's problem was solved by ordering the British Minister at Addis Ababa to tell Emperor Haile Selassie orally what may happen if His Majesty is unwilling or unable to stop slave raiding into Kenya. To prepare the British public for what may happen, loyal London papers called bombing "the only cheap and effective method of pursuing the marauders," declared that against natives "one bomber is worth 35,000 troops...
...detachment of the theme; he has tried the balled stanza and has made a Indicrous failure of that difficult form so losing all claim to poetic merit. Use of the classic device anacolnthon has made ungrammatical hash, unpalatable, wretched English, as witness the line. "Yet many, like myself, am slave." This is not to say that there are no good lines in the poem, nor that the treatment in places is not amazingly fine, but the whole is no better than its average, and the average entices the reader only with the charm of being interested in a slightly better...
...That morning citizens of Harper's Ferry, Va. woke to sinister rumors. John Brown had captured the arsenal, cut the telegraph wires, proclaimed a slave insurrection. But no slaves came flocking in to him. Militia surrounded the engine house where Brown's tiny "army" made their last stand. U. S. Marines finished off the shambles the militia left. During his trial and in the days he waited for the scaffold, old John Brown was at his fanatical best. Few who saw him then thought him insane; even his jailer felt sympathy for him, admired...