Word: slaving
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...stories for the New York Daily News and twice, as the Depression deepened, founded black literary journals. But the Harlem Renaissance had lost its early brilliance, and at heart, West was less a New Yorker than a black version of a proper Bostonian. Her father, who was born a slave, had built a thriving produce business in Boston and was prosperous enough to buy a summer home in Oak Bluffs. By 1943 West had moved there to live. Five years later, her first novel, The Living Is Easy, was set in the affluent world of proud black achievers...
...ranks among the most sordid legacies of world history, plantation slavery subjugated everyone, white and Black, within a racially divided and potentially explosive social prison. Whereas contemporary prison labor specifically punishes the guilty for the crimes which they committed, slavery indiscriminately shackled the innocent for having fallen into the slave-trader's custody...
West, who is also professor of the philosophy of religion at the Divinity School, drew heavily on the history of oppression of Blacks in the Americas, from 1492 to the present, He cited the deaths of more than 200 million Africans in the trans-Atlantic slave trade...
...beginning, they hold your hand and takeyou through training...and they allow a certainmargin of error," Hong says. "The environmentturn[ed] out to be far more friendly than Ithought it would be. It wasn't the slave camp thatone might have imagined...
...birth of the African-American intelligentsia in the 19th century. Henry Gates notes in an article on Frederick Douglass in the New York Times Book Review (May 28, 1995) how, in several versions of his attempt at an autobiography, Douglass emphasized the fact that his father was a white slave owner in one autobiographical version while, in another version, he emphasized the importance of his Black mother to his quest for a viable personhood in our white supremacist-riddled American society. From Frederick Douglass, through James Weldon Johnson (head of the NAACP in the 1930s), to Jean Toomer (a major...