Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Those who've got jobs to lose have got slave labor to lose," Numzana said...
Samuel ("Black") Bellamy, beard down to his chest and black hair to his shoulders, looked every bit the pirate that he was. In the winter of 1716-17 near Cuba, Bellamy seized the Whydah, an English slave galley named for a West African port. He turned it into a carrier for tons of silver and gold but $ never lived to enjoy his hoard. The Whydah broke up in a storm off Cape Cod, its crew drunk on pirated wine, its cargo lost, its very existence doubted...
...pricetag. But the biographical importance of this collection outweighs any criticisms about its format. It is rare thing when a human being progresses as far as Baldwin--from clumsy uneducated prose to vivid poetry, from confusion and despair to strength and spokesmanship, and from the resentful mind of a slave to the humanitarian outlook of a true leader. It is a rarer thing still when the public is allowed to witness the birth of such a great philosopher...
...treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing on the Canadian border, and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh has called for all Indians to arise against the settlers. Trapped by this turmoil is Lettiece Shipman, a freed slave from Kentucky who had hoped to go to Canada. In the meantime, she does laundry and sells sexual favors to Keene in return for booze, which he prudently waters beforehand. Betrothed to Fanny and trying to kick his addiction to liquor, Keene fantasizes about the time when he will enjoy both...
...cardboard Perrier carton that contains most of his worldly possessions: a toothbrush, a tube of Colgate toothpaste, a cracked and yellowing bar of soap, a flashlight and a beginner's manual of English. Villa looks 13, but he claims to be 16. Every morning he hikes over to the "slave market" on Sawtelle Boulevard and hangs around with other youths until someone drives up and offers him $30 for a day's work shoveling gravel or moving furniture. "It's better than picking crops in Mexico," he says. "I'd rather go home than stay here forever...