Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Mac Harris, 92, bearded, cane-twirling ex-slave, idol of famed Beale Street during the South's Reconstruction, onetime "king of gamblers" along the Mississippi from St. Louis to New Orleans ; in a shabby flat in Memphis...
Square Meter in Heaven. This time the British sided not with the Egyptians, but with the Mahdi. The British knew how deeply the Sudanese hate the Egyptians, who still call them Abed (slaves) in memory of the times when Sudanese tribesmen were sold down the river to the slave marts of Alexandria and Cairo. The British also knew the value to Britain of the Sudan under sympathetic native rule...
...enough to have wealth and comfort and money and credit. There is necessary something greater: spiritual wealth-freedom. ... An America half slave and half free . . . cannot prosper...
...rival, Colonel McCormick. Field invited Caniff to his apartment at 740 Park Avenue, blandly asked him: "What do you want?" Caniff hardly needed to answer: ownership of copyright. "I'm out to emancipate you," smiled Field. Then he added comfortably: "I imagine you're a well-paid slave...
Roberts' fans are most likely to enjoy the Haitian chapters, many of which bubble with the heat and smell of the country, the tragicomic chaos of the days of Toussaint, Henri Christophe and Dessalines. Lydia's standout character: King Dick, giant, uninhibited Sudanese ex-slave who figured in Author Roberts' The Lively Lady and who swaggers happily around Haiti with pearls as big as birds' eggs, a harem of doting wives and a 5-ft. bamboo shillelagh. Lydia Bailey is the stuff that sells, but doesn't survive...