Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chopping in the field. Warren County. Hog-killing time. Hinds County. WPA farm-to-market road worker. Lowndes County. Saturday off Jackson. With a dog. Madison County. With a baby. Hinds County. With a chum. Madison County. Home. Claiborne County. Home. Pearl River. Home. Jackson. A slave's apron showing souls in progress to Heaven or Hell. Yalobusha County. Ida M'Toy, retired midwife. Jackson...
Still, it remains to be seen if the moral appeal implicit in this book will evoke a response from "the land of the thief and the home of the slave," as DuBois called it; partly because, as an Indian woman who had been on Alcatraz told me recently, "People are brought up with the idea that all these things the white people have done to the Indians was done a long time ago. A lot of people don't realize that it's still going...
...leans back to see the sun setting over the ice-encrusted bricks. The camera rests on the image for several seconds. What is supposed to be beautiful here? The sunset reflected in the ice? Yes, they usually are, but Wrede continually forgets that the wall was made by a slave for Stalin who statistically had a very good chance of dying before his term was finished...
...regime, and the dream that Chiang Kai-shek would reconquer the mainland was, alas, "a little counter-revolutionary vision." Turning to the U.N., he described Albania, sponsor of the successful anti-Taiwan resolution, as "a little, reclusive country composed primarily of rocks and serfs, with here and there a slave master, whose principal export is Maoism." Buckley's recommendation: the President should instruct the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. to abstain forthwith from voting in the General Assembly...
...escapes from history, not even historians. Historical accounts and historical fortunes rise and fall with the passage of time. At one point slave owners are in and abolitionists are out. Next generation the sides are reversed. When a strong president is running the show, the Eisenhowers are glorified; when the Eisenhowers are in office, the Roosevelts receive the historian's prize...