Word: slaving
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...Caryl Phillips' work, people are rarely at home. Caribbean citizens go to England in search of employment; British people tour the empire; Africans travel in the holds of slave ships to be deposited in West Indian plantations. Their displacement makes them uneasy storytellers and unreliable narrators, but it also heightens their awareness of their surroundings. They pay close attention, and even when they misinterpret what they see, their observations have a nervous, vibrant edge...
...early 19th century, the book narrates the journey of the Englishwoman Emily Cartwright to an unnamed Caribbean is land to look after affairs on her father's plantation estate. Part of the book is told from her point of view, part from that of an educated, African-born Christian slave named Cambridge...
Take the coalition's original flyer, which declared that the sins of a "Peculiar Institution" thrive at Harvard. Coalition members should try to focus on reality. If they believe that the racism that accompanied the slave system is really alive at Harvard, then they will be surprised at the injustice and racial inequality that exists in the real world. Harvard is far from the "plantation" and would be even farther if these minority students helped to unify the student body...
...March 23, the Geneva-based International Labor Organization reports that tens of millions of people around the globe, including children as young as six, are working in bondage -- in dangerous and degrading conditions that often involve 18-hour workdays, beatings and sexual abuse. Many are the victims of opportunistic slave raiders, sometimes called "child catchers" and "cats," who roam impoverished or war-ravaged regions kidnapping, buying or luring helpless prospects into servitude...
Virginia, the house committee chair, kept promising me it would happen. "Wait until Secret Santa. You'll never even visit other houses. It'll make you a K-House slave forever." Well, I still visit other houses, but Virginia had a point. Holiday spirit is the crucible of Kirkland. Survive it, and you become one of the K-House elect...