Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Must. In the 19th century, the exploitation of rubber in the interior introduced another wave of slaughter. To punish one miscreant slave, one plantation owner forced him to watch while plantation hands took turns raping the Indian's wife, then had the man emasculated. After a visit to Brazil in 1900, Lord Bryce, famed British Ambassador to the U.S., wrote: "The methods employed in the collection of rubber surpass in horror anything hitherto reported to the civilized world during the last century. Flogging, torturing, burning and starving to death have been constantly and ruthlessly employed." Along with the white...
...border on their way to work in West Berlin were arrested, their identification cards taken from them, and many clapped in jail. One East Berliner asked why he was being stopped and was told: "Don't play dumb." Communist vigilante squads styling themselves "Committees to Block the Slave Trade" turned commuters over to the police. Inevitably, many of the Berlin commuters joined the refugees, and now make up 20% of the stream...
...descendant of a slave is about to enter Mars Hill College, bringing to an end 105 years of segregation at the Baptist school in western North Carolina.* Her admittance means something more: the payoff of a novel moral debt...
...contractors $1,100; the treasury was empty. While they frantically passed the hat, the builders slapped a judgment on the Rev. J. W. Anderson, future secretary of the college. The Rev. Mr. Anderson owned a Negro named Joe -a strapping young man easily worth $1,100 on the slave market in nearby Asheville. Some say that Joe himself volunteered to be a human surety. The builders took him to jail for safekeeping. Four days later, when the founders raised the cash. Mars Hill was saved...
...other play of Shakespeare has a more strongly unified theme. Troilus puts is most clearly, in a characteristically double statement, when he says "that the will is infinite and the execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit." It is the disparity between theory and practice, reason and emotion, ideals and shortcomings, order and disorder--Greeks and Trojans. And an undermining factor is Time--"envious and calumniating time," "injurious time...