Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...life to another," he says. "Some get a brand at the end of a divorce, others on their birthday." Many of his clients are punk rockers and S&M aficionados. About half, he says, are fraternity members, including African-American frats that have used branding for years, sometimes choosing slave designs to connect with their ancestors. While branding marks are not as detailed as tattoos (and can hurt more--though no worse than a bad sunburn, say enthusiasts), for some they have more ritualistic power...
They lie awake at night, Cary Stayner's relatives do, casting for reasons to believe their own denials. In the world they try to build, Steven found happiness after his return at age 14 from seven years as the sex slave of a pedophile, and there is no connection between that made-for-TV drama and last week's sequel, in which older brother Cary confessed to four horrific murders in the vicinity of Yosemite National Park. The world they build is clean, the family normal. But then they wonder, Did Cary kill Uncle Jerry...
There was no mention of abolitionism, except to say that "efforts to free the slaves began in the South; ironically, Gen. U.S. Grant was a slave owner while Gen. Robert E. Lee freed his slaves." The museum even implied that President Lincoln worded the Emancipation Proclamation so that his in-laws in Kentucky could legally keep their slaves...
...what are we to make of the scientific study that came out last week showing how women let their biological calendar choose their mate? Maybe this: no matter how highly evolved we think we are, at some level the female of the species, like the male, is still a slave to the brain's prehistoric hardwiring...
...they approve of his personal behavior: the self-promotions ("I am the greatest!"), his affiliation with the Muslims and giving up his "slave name" for Muhammad Ali ("I don't have to be what you want me to be; I'm free to be what I want"), the poetry (his ability to compose rhymes on the run could very well qualify him as the first rapper) or the quips ("If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up!"). At the press conferences, the reporters were sullen. Ali would turn on them...