Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sethe, who has run away from her Kentucky master and settled with her mother-in-law on the outskirts of Cincinnati. The details of Sethe's break for freedom are appropriately heroic. Pregnant with her fourth child and apparently abandoned at the last moment by her husband and fellow slave Halle, she nonetheless manages to send her three children ahead of her in a wagon bound for Ohio and then arrives there herself in 1855, after giving birth to her daughter Denver...
...imaginary lawyer tries unsucessfully to keep slavery out of the Constitution. But the framers are more concerned with protecting the property rights of slave owners than with protecting the individual rights of the slaves...
...major issue. An important theme of his papacy has been the danger of man becoming the "slave of things." He has frequently preached that in affluent nations, materialism, selfishness and consumerism close the "horizons of the spirit." According to the TIME poll, an impressive 76% of Catholics and 56% of Protestants think that "Americans in particular should pay attention" to the Pope's words on materialism. Some 56% of Catholics also say the Pope's warnings are relevant to their own lives, though only 33% of Protestants think...
These days he pounds away at American business. Corporate behavior must change, declares Jackson. "They're getting slave labor abroad," he says, "at the expense of jobs here." He urges federal penalties and incentives to force corporations to stop. Audiences like the argument. So effective is Jackson with America's workers that organized labor, long hostile to Jackson, is beside itself. His bravado raises a tough question: How much does Jackson really know? He has no ready information supply, but rather sucks up ideas and facts as he goes along. Jackson's grasp of voters' emotions is uncanny and exceeds...
...dignitaries could hardly overlook the ironies and injustices embedded in the Constitution. Philadelphia Congressman William H. Gray, who is black, recalled that one direct legacy of the Great Compromise was the provision demanded by sparsely populated Southern states that each slave be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation. "But because the framers knew the inevitability of justice . . ." said Gray, "this nation has made such progress...