Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...word responsibility means `capable of response,'" he says, "and that means getting away from being a slave to the text...
...black people into the month of February implies that black history is different from American history. This allows for no more than a qualified recognition of blacks in American history, at best--despite the fact that no history can be more American than the history of America's slaves and their descendants. History simply cannot be divided into black and white. Anyone who really knows American history knows that there is no major event in the American narrative which was not in some way touched by the race issue. What's more, whether we like to admit...
...This may be a little-known fact, but during slavery in the US, slave masters and overseers would rub the heads of their male slaves for "good luck." I am not a slave, and no one here is my master...
...Treatise on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School), female dress becomes a hindrance. Miss Beecher recommends self-reliance and deplores corsets, and Lidie, therefore, disguises herself as a boy. This works long enough to take her to a plantation in slave country but fails when she has a miscarriage. Further adventures set down by Smiley, author of A Thousand Acres, include an unwelcome marriage proposal from a doddering plantation owner and a threatened death sentence for stealing a slave. Lidie prevails and returns to Illinois, having, like the beguiled reader, seen an astonishing...
...certainly all these things pale in comparison to what it must have been like to be a slave or a black American in the '50s. Even in my most painful and profound encounters with racism, I have never felt the lash of a whip, or been used as a breeding machine, or been spit on for trying to enter a whites only school. Does this mean we have made progress against the foe of racism? Not nearly enough, as I see it. Because even though I may not know the smart of the whip any more than a white person...