Word: slaving
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Despite the fact that Harper's primary expertise lies in 20th century literature, Brandeis's Gilmore maintains that the young scholar has a unique ability also to bring early literature, particularly slave narratives, to life...
...Rich Jews" operating in Seville and Lisbon and Hamburg and Newport, R.I., and other cities financed the African slave trade...
...Mulie Jarju, 33, a migrant worker from Gambia, starred last year in a prizewinning film, Letters from Alou, about the plight of Africans employed illegally in Spain under conditions close to those of slave labor. Today Jarju cannot find work in Spain as either actor or laborer and faces deportation...
...Ethics at the University of Minnesota, believes that PCR will revolutionize everything from medicine and biology to anthropology and history. It is a prospect he finds both exhilarating and disturbing. Technically, it would be possible, by examining DNA samples from the descendants of Thomas Jefferson and those of his slave Sally Hemings, to determine once and for all whether Jefferson, as rumored, fathered some of Hemings' children. Would this be an appropriate use of the new technology? "Let me put it this way," says Caplan. "Because of PCR, I'm not worried about going out of the bioethics business anytime...
Most of the revolutionaries were wealthier, more respectable types than Paine, including, shamefully, even slave owners like Tom Jefferson. But whatever their limitations, they were all proud sons of the Enlightenment. They believed fiercely in the power of individual reason as a guide to action, which is why so many of them defied majority opinion with their radical views on God. Any 1990s-style political handler could have advised them to go to church and mouth the prayers along with everyone else, but men like Paine, Ben Franklin and John Adams were deists, holding that God had created the universe...