Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strong belonged to a species of American now almost extinct. He was one of those solid, versatile squires who did their public duty even while suspecting public life, and clung fiercely to a creed of almost fanatical independence. He liked men who worked for themselves, and distrusted both Southern slave owner and Northern capitalist; neither, it seemed to him, could quite be a gentleman. He enjoyed comfort but disdained luxury, prided himself on literary cultivation yet squinted uneasily at intellectuals. He lived, or aspired to live, by the tone and manners of the Founding Fathers...
...every crossroad!-or to brake the suicidal careering of its production-and-profit-mad economy toward the imperialistic enslavement of all peoples, total war, and an apocalyptic holocaust and collapse . . . It is, in essence, the myth of the Frankenstein monster, the machine built to be man's slave, and which enslaved...
...threatened by a great tyranny, a tyranny that is brutal in its primitiveness. It is a tyranny that has brought thousands-millions of people-into slave camps and is attempting to make all human kind its chattel...
Died. Charles Clinton Spaulding, 78, a former slave's son who became one of the richest Negroes in the U.S.; of pneumonia in Durham, N.C. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...nationalist spent his time studying Latin, teaching a fellow prisoner Spanish, poring over the biographies of the great liberators Bolivar and San Martin. He would sign no petition for clemency on his behalf addressed to the White House. To his wife Rosa, he wrote: "[I] refuse to play the slave asking his master for mercy...