Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...striking or revolutionary ideas about U.S. history. Author Davidson has been content to follow the familiar trails hacked out by earlier social historians and to fill in his conventional account with homely details. Volume I is concerned mainly with the way Americans have worked, and it covers everything from slave-tended tobacco growing in the colonial South to New England whaling and Detroit assembly lines. Volume II focuses on manners and styles of life: steamboating on the Mississippi, immigrant ways in the big city slums, the exciting new society diversions of the waltz and polka...
...episode, and its characters are sufficiently self-consistent so that it is possible to tell them apart. But the old Waltari charm is not there. The hero is a Finnish boy named Michael who sails aboard a pilgrim ship for Palestine, only to be lugged off to the African slave markets by Moslem pirates. Thenceforward, he ricochets about the Ottoman Empire-from the fall of Algiers to the siege of Vienna to the campaigns in Persia-like some 16th Century Lanny Budd with a bath towel wound around his head. The reader is carried along with Michael's story...
...there are the more elaborate pleasures of the fray, such as "The Red Eagle": a pet Norse revenge, in which a man's belly is slit from side to side, and his lungs hauled out through the opening. Otherwise, it is the story of a Danish slave boy, Ogier, who wins his freedom and roves with the Viking freebooters from Iceland to Italy. In the end, he marries a princess and sails with her to discover a land that Ogier called Avalon, but that sounds very much like America...
...blessings with which the Orthodox Jew sanctifies every important action of the day: the thanks on awakening (for the day, for the power of sight, for the creation of the earth, for the power to walk, for the renewal of his strength, for not being an idolator or a slave or a woman*), the blessings before & after meals, and the special thanks to be offered on such occasions as the sight of trees in springtime, the ocean, a rainbow, or the getting of new possessions...
...Cadbury's sincerity and goodwill were appealing and disarming. But I could not help wondering how he or any other short-time visitor could feel so sure that the great majority of the Russian people are unaffected by fear of slave labor concentration camps. As there is very substantial evidence from many sources (perhaps best summed up in "Forced Labor in Soviet Russia," by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky) that millions of Soviet citizens have passed through these camps, it would seem unlikely that many Soviet families could be ignorant of the existence and character of these establishments...