Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kisagotami brought her dead son to Buddha, who required " 'some mustard seed taken from a house where no son, husband, parent, or slave has died.' The girl said, 'Very good,' and went to ask for some at the different houses, carrying the dead body of her son astride on her hip. The people said, 'Here is some mustard seed, take it.' Then she asked, 'In my friend's house has there died a son, a husband, a parent, or a slave?' They replied, 'Lady, what is this that...
...Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...their trust in the Republican Party--the party of pre-Pearl Harbor isolation--to win the war and to make the peace. But to make a place is to know why are has been fought; the party which holds with Senator Robert Taft that this world can live half slave and half free does not know why this war is being fought. Today the American people are bagging bigger game than George Norris or Franklin Roosevelt. They wound their allies. They snipe at democracy. They are shooting themselves...
...worldwide struggle for freedom, she spoke out boldly against "evils as black as night" that crowded in on her as she moved South. Slavery she hated. She was horrified to think it could exist in the U.S. when Britain had already forbidden it. Friends warned her against entering the slave States where her Abolitionist opinions were known. She ignored the warnings, argued her way firmly, courteously through the South. Later on in Boston she met William Lloyd Garrison ("I thought Garrison the most bewitching personage I had met in the U.S."), spoke vigorously at an Abolitionist meeting which...
...newly completed Savery Library at Talladega (Ala.) College. Painted in broad, Rivera-like brush strokes and crowded with writhing figures of whites and Negroes, these murals record two historical subjects associated with the story of the U.S. Negro: 1) the history of the 1839 mutiny on the slave ship Amistad, the subsequent trial of the Negro mutineers in New Haven, Conn, and the repatriation of the ship's slave cargo to Africa; 2) the history of the development of Talladega College itself, from its founding in an abandoned Civil War prison in 1867 by the American Missionary Association...