Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Time on the Cross," Fogel said that the Southern slave plantation was economically more efficient than Northern agriculture, and that efficiency came from the slaves' ability to rise in the plantation system of incentives...
Fogel--whose method is based on quantitative materials, mainly census tracts and plantation records--also argued that the slave system was less brutal than past historians have said...
...enough that the sheet music of Maple Leaf Rag, published in 1899, sold more than a million copies and made the son of a former slave well-to-do almost overnight. Not for Scott Joplin. As a youth he may have earned his living playing honky-tonk piano by night in a string of saloons and bordellos in the South and Midwest. But what few realized was that he was expertly tutored in harmony, counterpoint and the works of the classical masters...
...Galley Slave. Sand's professional labors were at least as arduous as her love life. Like Balzac, Dickens and Dostoyevsky, she was one of the galley slaves of 19th century literature, constantly trying to keep one pen stroke ahead of her creditors. The result was some 60 novels, 25 plays, an autobiography and enough miscellaneous essays to fill a dozen bulging volumes. Her correspondence, which is still being uncovered, promises to fill another 25 volumes. An impassioned propagandist for the romantic movement, she used her writing to champion political as well as sexual revolution...
...although within the last year it has shifted a Dit so that now the CIA is seen as only a wing of the Rockefeller family, which in turn controls the world. The Rockfellers relay on secret police to enforce on the world what the NCLC calls "slave labor" policies. There's a sort of perverse paradoxical logic to the NCLC's theories--for instance, while the Rockfellers control the world already, they are constantly trying to gain control of it. Also, anyone who criticizes the NCLC--me, for instance--is a CIA agent. It doesn't even need...