Word: slaving
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WASHINGTON. This month marks the centenary of the death of Frederick Douglass, the Maryland slave born in 1818 who became the most renowned African-American voice of his generation in the U.S. antislavery movement and a relentless tribune of racial equality after the Civil War. To commemorate the abolitionist's triumphs and disappointments, the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery this week opens ``Majestic in His Wrath: The Life of Frederick Douglass,'' an exhibition with more than 80 paintings, sculptures, photographs, engravings, documents and personal memorabilia. Through...
...friend in Paris, he was confronted "at every step" with "ready-made paintings which would make the fame and fortune of 20 generations of painters." And in a sense he was right. From Delacroix on, Oriental exoticism would bulk ever larger in the offerings of the Paris salon: slave markets, dim fretted courtyards, hawk-nosed Arabs and their Barbary mounts, recumbent houris...
...speech, entitled, "The Bell Curve in Historical Context," was little more than a diatribe which sought to label Jews as the sole progenitors of racism-and later the slave trade-in Europe. The basis of his argument consisted of a portion of the Babylonian Talmud, a 2,000-year-old collection of religious writings, which contain a myth that describes Africans as a cursed people who are doomed to a history of servitude...
Martin then linked the slave trade to the Talmud by asserting a 1,500-year-old "Jewish monopoly" on racist ideas that began with the Talmud and continued until the advent of Black slavery. According to Martin, the Jewish people carefully nurtured these racist ideas for a millennium and a half until the rest of Europe decided to join...
Martin says the earliest version of the Hamitic Myth can be found in the Talmud, a 2000-year-old collection of Jewish religious writings. The professor then jumps 1,500 years into the future and argues that the myth led to the horrors of the slave trade...