Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken to the station house. The desk sergeant began the routine of booking him. Name? John Torthi. Birthplace? Lynchburg, Va. Date? June 4, 1824. The desk sergeant looked up astonished. Was this old fellow 107 years old? The Negro nodded his head, explained that he had been a slave nearly 40 years before being freed by the Proclamation of Emancipation (Jan. 1, 1863). He rambled on that he had been married five times, once cooked coffee for General Grant, had 49 grandchildren. At mention of the Civil War he mumbled about "lots of shooting" and "long roads." He broke into...
...John Torthi was really a onetime slave, it was for him and his kind that Chicago's Representative Oscar De Priest, only Negro in Congress, last month introduced in the House a relief bill (H. R. 10098). The measure provided that all Negroes over 75 who were freed from slavery by President Lincoln's proclamation should be pensioned by the Federal Government at the rate of $30 per month.* According to the 1930 Census, there were in the U. S. 118,446 Negroes aged 75 or more of whom Congressman De Priest estimated not more than...
Congressman De Priest's argument for his pension bill: The first 20 Negro slaves were brought to America by a Dutch trading vessel in 1619. By 1863 there were in the U. S. 3,500,000 slaves and 500,000 free Blacks. During this 244-year period, at $50 per year, slaves earned $3,365,177,850 which they never got. Simple interest at 3% since Emancipation has raised this debt to the Negro race to $11,332,070,000. H. R. 10098 would wipe out the "debt." The Congress seemed distinctly uninterested in the De Priest proposal...
Thomas Nast was no soldier in the Civil War, but as a cartoonist he threw himself into it with the same gusto he gave every fight. The South was a nation of tobacco-chewing slave whippers. Lincoln was his saint. Grant his personal hero. In 1862 Fletcher Harper hired him for Harper's Weekly at a good salary. From that day Harper's and Nast were an unbeatable team, the most influential artist, the most influential magazine in the country. When they separated in 1886 Harper's lost its circulation, and Nast, though he tried to start a paper...
Contemplation of this social phenomenon was interrupted by the noisy arrival of that obsequious slave of the Capitalist State, the Fire Department. With misdirected enthusiasm they cast a damper upon the whole affair. They not only put out the fire but earnestly insisted that they knew nothing whatever as to the whereabouts of the Lindbergh baby. Both actions had a vastly sobering effect on the crowd. Dispirited, the upper middle classes retreated into its painted towers and the mob retired into the arms of its painted women. The Vagabond went and played a haunting melody on the Lowell House bells...