Word: slaving
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...wake of a series of fires that destroyed several buildings, including the governor’s mansion. Even in a city of wooden houses that was—both literally and figuratively—a tinderbox, the number and frequency of the blazes sparked anxiety. And then a slave was caught running from the scene of one fire, and wary New Yorkers–who read all about slave revolts in the Caribbean and South Carolina–began to cry, “The Negroes are rising!” Blacks out on the streets were corralled and tossed...
Surprisingly, the defendants were allowed to cross-examine and call witnesses, but that did not affect the verdict. Even though the testimony of the prosecution’s witnesses was laughably unreliable, the alleged slave ringleaders were convicted and burned alive at the stake. The white mastermind, Hughson, was hanged. In terms of the fairness of the proceedings, the trials resembled less “Law and Order” than “Judge Judy...
...Doctorow introduces a multitude of characters who live by their wits, reinvent themselves ceaselessly and sometimes die abruptly. Arly and Will are two reprobate Confederate soldiers who adopt different colors, blue or gray, as the rules of survival require. Pearl is a half-caste slave girl shrewdly contemplating the horizons of her new freedom while serving for a while in the disguise of a Union drummer boy. Her former mistress Mattie Jameson is now a grief-crazed Confederate widow swept along with Sherman's forces. The far better-composed Emily Thompson, the daughter of a Georgia judge, rediscovers herself...
...city built by rumrunners and slave traders and pirates was never going to play by anyone's rules or plan for the future. So as Katrina, wicked and flirtatious, lingered in the Gulf with her eye on the town, many citizens decided they would stay, stubborn or stoic or too poor to have much choice. As for the ones packing up to go, disaster officials told them to take a look around before they left, because it might never look the same again...
...enough of fake history and accusatory glares, thanks. I missed the centerpiece of Panafest—billed as a “reverential evening” at Cape Coast Castle, one of history’s largest slave depots—and am saving up my reverence for a number of gin and tonics...