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...since he began to include a book published by the Nation of Islam in his course on African-American history. Martin's book attacks several colleagues who opposed his use of the Nation of Islam text, and elaborates on the argument that Jews played a central role in the slave trade...
...road is strewn with obstacles. We have no experience of free enterprise. There are remnants of a slave ideology, with people still ready to serve "the party and the government." Finally, there are the ambitions of many would-be Napoleons, who are often totally indifferent to everything and everybody but themselves. But I won't hide the fact that I would like Russians to remember me as the man who did his best to free his people once and for all from the legacy of the civil war. From now on, let our Russia be a homeland...
...possible atrocity as civil war heats up in the late '50s. She is tortured with knives, electric prods, snakes, even ants; she is brutalized by the republican army and raped by the Viet Cong. She is a stand-in for her lovely country, despoiled by successive invaders like a slave princess by jealous pashas. And when she escapes to the U.S. with her sergeant husband (Tommy Lee Jones), life doesn't improve. It's still sexual rapacity, guns and ammo, war games by other means...
...then there were the slaves. In 1619 the Virginia settler John Rolfe made a diary note of a dark moment in American history. "About the last of August," he wrote, "came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars." In Virginia alone, the slave population grew from about 2,000 in 1670 to 150,000 on the eve of the American Revolution. Most of the slaves sailed from West Africa, chained together in dank, fetid holds for transatlantic journeys that often lasted three months or more. The conditions were unspeakable, the mortality rate horrifying: on some ships...
...pageant of American history has always looked rather different to the descendants of slaves than it does to descendants of slave owners. Not surprisingly, it also appears less than festive to the descendants of conquered natives, exploited migrant workers or Chinese railroad coolies. To them the vital history lesson is not the myth embodied in the Statue of Liberty but the reality of immigration laws that sharply restricted the chances of Hispanic and Asians. They value less the dazzling engineering feat of the transcontinental railroad than the abuse of laborers. They see the culture that shaped America...