Word: slaving
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...motives for existence have gained in integrity, its necessity has all but vanished. Harvard has changed since the 1920s, and with that change has come the need for reading period reform. Why does Harvard insist on having exams after the vacation? Why does it seemingly remain a slave to tradition...
Ireland's Catholics had long identified with and supported America's abolitionist movements with a fervor they encouraged amongst their American kin. Religious persecution under the notorious British Penal Laws had driven Irish Catholics to New England by the thousands. As virtual slave laborers, the Irish ended up in black communities. They worked the same jobs, lived in the same neighborhoods, and engendered from the close, often intimate proximity, the first recorded incidence of 'mulattoes' as a census grouping in states like Pennsylvania...
...actress; of burns received while lighting a kerosene heater; in Augusta, Georgia. In 1937 the New York Times theater critic noticed "the extraordinary artistry of a high-stepping, little dusky creature who describes herself as Butterfly McQueen." Two years later, the world saw McQueen as Prissy, the comically incompetent slave in the film classic Gone With the Wind. Her panicked "Lawdy, Miz Scarlett. I don't know nothing about birthing babies!" became one of the most quoted lines in movie history--and in later years, a focus of criticism for fitting an "Uncle Thomasina" stereotype. Ironically, McQueen herself fought...
...awake in the morning, mocking her attempts to find her daughter, robbing her of any peace ... a mother-daughter sex team ... Billig could not let go of Amy, whose birth seemed such a miracle after four miscarriages. You'll be abducted like your daughter and sold into a slave trade. She did not dare change her number. The Voice that tormented also held out the hope that Amy might yet be alive, trying to get in touch...
Most African-Americans have a "multi-racial" heritage thanks to the history of the slave experience in this country. However, few feel it necessary to announce it when queried about identity. The fact that they are "multiracial," does not relieve them from the baggage of being an African-American. It is obvious that Powell's laundry list of identities serves a political purpose and that is fine, but don't question African-Americans for being skeptical about this tactic...