Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...biggest slave-trading American colonies were not Southern but Northern-Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. > The first American casualty against the British was a Negro-Crispus Attucks, a runaway slave killed in the Boston Massacre...
Last week, the NAACP went before the Mercantile Affairs Committee of the Massachusetts House with well-documented evidence on what amounts to an up-dated slave trade. Working with Southern affiliates, Boston agencies advertise in Dixie newspapers, offering feminine domestic jobs at $35 to $60 a week. Upon arriving in the North, the girls find their work much heavier, and their salary much lower, than promised. Suddenly they owe the agency a large, mysterious, unitemized "fee." If work is not immediately available, the agency holds their luggage and threatens them with "the law." Many girls spend months working themselves...
...cast, as well as Schmidt's direction and David Levine's lighting, is equally as deft. David Rittenhouse, playing Ferneze, the Governor of Malta, and Francis Gitter as the Jew's daughter, display a remarkable intensity in their more straight-forward roles. Charles Degelman, who plays the scheming Turkish slave Ithamore, could have looked evil just by raising his eyebrows and shifting his huge jaw into a sneer. Only Neal Johnston as Pilia-borza seemed amateurish, but that was as much due to his Ralph Guglielmi accent as to his performance...
...brought to America, Handlin said, no racial distinction was made between them and such people as Irish and Welsh indentured servants. A whole generation passed, he said, before the greater cultural difference of the Negroes and the involuntary nature of their servitude caused them to be distinguished from other slaves, and it was not until the nineteenth century that the identity of "Negro" with "slave" was established...
Handlin explained that slavery in the United States was unique in that it considered the slave a commodity rather than a person, leading to a disregard for the slave's personal life. He attributed this to the fact that before 1820 slavery was assumed to be only a temporary situation...