Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...described Nehru in this fashion: "Men like Jawaharlal, with all their capacity for great and good work, are unsafe in a democracy. He calls himself a democrat and a socialist, and no doubt he does so in all earnestness, but every psychologist knows that the mind is ultimately slave to the heart . . . Jawahar has all the makings of a dictator in him-vast popularity, a strong will, ability, hardness, an intolerance for others and a certain contempt for the weak and inefficient... Is it not possible that Jawahar might fancy himself as a Caesar...
...five-year-old subject, a great-great-great-grandson of Maryland's founder, stands like a general in full regalia ordering his troops to advance. But Calvert has the dreamy look of a little boy who wonders how soon he can go out to play. His personal slave seems the better actor...
...Slaves could marry, but the union was not legally recognized in the South. One Kentucky minister with auction-block separations in mind amended the words in slave weddings to "till death or distance do you part." Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse...
shed, Where blest he woos some black Aspasia's grace And dreams of freedom in his slave...
While the slave trader (Andrew Jackson was one for a while) and the overseer with his bull whip were the logical villains of slavery, the master sometimes outdid them in inventive cruelty. One South Carolina owner used to put his Negroes in hogsheads with nails driven, in all around and roll them downhill. One fugitive slave, possibly a survivor of some such punishment, had himself nailed up in a box 3 ft. by 2½ ft. by 2 ft. and survived a 25-hour shipment on the railroad to the North. There was a real-life model for Eliza...