Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...historical delimitation of the Black Experience. With this yardstick, therefore, it would be unthinkable if not treasonable to use the Haitian political experience as an historical example of something relevant and meaningful to the overall Black Experience. Instead, one would have to turn to an historical event like the slave trade to the Western Hemisphere in order to find ideological and emotional sustenance for what I can now call the black racialist or nationalist view of the Black Experience. In this view of the Black Experience, the slave trade is seen as the beastly act of beastly White...
Davis is beguilingly guileful as a runaway slave who changes hands like a dirty dollar. He is captured by a band of Indians, who unload him on Fur Trapper Lancaster as "payment" for the load of skins they steal from him. The redskins, in turn, are zapped by a batch of bounty hunters, who earn their living by selling Indian scalps for $25 apiece, and Davis gets himself captured by these private enterprisers. Their queen is Shelley Winters, a refugee from a fancy house. She nurses her stogie on a brass bed in the covered wagon...
Lesley College is offering its student body for sale at a "slave auction." The auction will begin at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday, April 27, in Lesley's Cambridge Amphitheater...
Approximately 70 Lesley freshmen will go for as low as one dollar per slave; each additional bid must be at least 50 cents. The profits will go to the Lesley Freshman Project Fund...
Every girl sold is required to be her owner's slave for a day, but the notice gave no indication of what she must do or how long she must...