Word: slaving
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...want to be here.’” Her freshman dean suggested time off was an option. “The feeling I got from her was, I could, I should really come back at a time when I could enjoy it and not slave at my work,’” she says...
Plenty, insist Gilchrist and his ilk. "Illegal aliens are invading this country and are killing us," he says. Anyone who hires them is a "morally cheap slave employer...
...also reflected when Franken spoke about the impact of religion on American culture. He stressed that the founding fathers like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were deists who saw morality all around them without the emphasis on Christianity. “Then again, Jefferson had sex with a slave,” he deadpanned. Aside from his serious reading, there were still plenty of jabs at right-wing pundits like O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh. Franken remarked that his “dream” was that his film about alcoholism “Stuart Saves the Day?...
...course there are important differences. "The comparison with slavery is a stretch," Jesse Jackson asserted in a speech at Harvard last year, "in that some slave masters were gay, in that gays were never called three-fifths human in the Constitution and in that they did not require the Voting Rights Act to have the right to vote." All of which is true. Race is most often, rightly or not, signified physically. While gays have been, and still are in many instances, forced to play straight, they at least had a refuge. It was historically difficult, usually impossible, and often...
...characters like Sarah Forbes Bonetta, a captive from Dahomey who became the Queen's godchild. Many of the images were designed to serve a purpose: to moralize, to glorify the empire or even to sell soap. Some propagandize for or against slavery. François-Auguste Biard's The Slave Trade (1835) is a grand narrative of cruelty. On the right people arrive bound; they're examined and haggled over; they proceed across the canvas to be flogged onboard the boat that will carry them to the slave ship offshore. Eyre Crowe's Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond Virginia...