Word: slaving
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Porter spoke critically of the Nation ofIslam's book, The Secret Relationship BetweenBlacks and Jews, which he called "hurtful."Among other points, the book alleges that Jews hadextensive involvement in the slave trade...
...discovery in World War I that scientific advances had also produced better engines of death and destruction turned speculation about the future excessively sour. Bellamy's radiant city became the high-tech slave societies of Yevgeny Zamyatin's novel We and Fritz Lang's silent film Metropolis. Aldous Huxley perfected the notion of dystopia in 1932 with Brave New World, and George Orwell weighed in with his haunting classic...
...Haiti Communications Project has joined with two organizations, the 500 Years is Enough Coalition, and the Committee of 500 Years of Resistance, to "demystify...[and] bring out the truth about Christopher Columbus' voyage," LaFontant says. The groups will bring speakers and performers to Jamaica Plain on Monday to address slave trade, the annihilation of the native American population and the cultural legacy of colonization...
Given this record of double-dealing, why do Americans admire Lincoln? He is not admirable because he was "Honest Abe" but because he was devious. He knew there were only minimal gains that could be made at each stage of his course in checking and then reversing the slave power. He knew that he could not accomplish even his initially restricted goals if he supported high-minded but unachievable aims. He proclaimed himself agnostic on the subject of blacks' intellectual inferiority and opposed to their social equality with whites. He knew that he had to avoid abolitionists and welcome Know...
...tone and intimidating manner made me wonder if I was a prisoner, a boot camp recruit, or worse yet, a slave," Ugwuegbu wrote...