Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...name derives from the treaties of "perpetual truce" ending "hostile acts at sea" (i.e., piracy, slave trading) that the British signed with their rulers in the 19th century...
...other blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement." The son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urandi, a longtime merchant seaman whose 22 years at sea carried him to most of the world's ports, including the U.S., Karume eventually rose to quartermaster and then settled down to run a syndicate of motorboats in Zanzibar harbor...
Take Yvonne De Carlo-a feat that is simplicity itself according to the script. Raised as a white belle amidst Kentucky's bluegrass, she learns that her mamma was a Negro, and she is hauled off to be knocked down for $5,000 at a New Orleans slave auction. Her gallant buyer: an aging Rhett Butler, again played by Clark Gable (under the assumed name of Hamish Bond...
Gable was a Yankee sea captain in the "nigger business." but has now repented of his slave-trading ways, and settled down as a Spanish-mossbacked Southern gentleman whose vassals are so happy that they all mass by ol' man river to sing hallelujah whenever Gable's steamboat comes round the bend. Yvonne is also cooing Gable's glory, though in more intimate circumstances. The trouble comes from Sidney Poitier, a pampered boss Negro whom Gable raised as a son; Sidney has turned bitter, would like nothing better than to plant kindly Massa Clark...
...ethereal unlikelihood of Band of Angels is heightened by its lunar dialogue. A pixilated slave woman shrills: "Sodjahs acomin' down fum de Nohf, sodjahs atotin' freedumb, adrippin' it lahk sweyet on a hot day!'' She also gives Yvonne some hot-day advice on how to enslave Gable: "Tease him lahk a cayetfish aswimmin' 'roun' a wuhm! Yukky-yuk! Wait'll he git itchy...