Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Probably the most famous living Negro, Paul Leroy Robeson was born 45 years ago in Princeton, NJ. His father, a run away slave in his youth, was a deeply respected, deep-voiced Presbyterian minister ("When people talk about my voice," say Robeson, "I wish they could have heard my father preach"). Entering Rutgers on a scholarship, Paul wound up in Phi Beta Kappa and a four-letter man. In football he was twice chosen by Walter Camp as All-America end-"the greatest defensive end," said Camp, "that ever trod the gridiron...
...year before. Imperial Oil Ltd. -Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) subsidiary- had sent young Theodore Augustus Link, fresh out of the University of Chicago, to sound out the possibilities. Lanky Dr. Link made his surveys, waited over the winter, after the ice left set out on Great Slave Lake with a motorboat, two scows overloaded with supplies, drill crews and an ox named "Nig." Eventually, after the ox had hauled the rig into position, the drillers...
...form or another, dates from the colonial days when whites first saw and imitated Negro entertainers. As early as 1769, during a Manhattan performance of Isaac Bickerstaff's comic opera The Padlock, an actor named Lewis Hallam got drunk on the stage in his role of a Negro slave and brought the house down. This eventually led to "the novel, grotesque, original and surpassingly melodious Ethiopian Band entitled the Virginia Minstrels...
...rolled a lump of coal toward a little girl. She ran off with it. Next day her father, one eye on the guards, gratefully slipped Hélion a meat sandwich. From then on the peasants realized "that we stood together on the same side of the castle: the slave quarters...
...Sabotage. Meanwhile the prisoners constantly meditated revolt. A "Central Committee" of three met secretly, formulated plans for outwitting the Nazis. They composed striking slogans. As the prisoners labored in Stettin's factories, they muttered loud enough to be heard by the German workers: "For every prisoner compelled to slave for Germany, there will be one German corpse in the plains of Russia." They slowed down the work as much as they dared...