Word: slaving
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...pressure of ritual meaning in the best Indian art, the search for a language of classical form and Roman gravitas conducted by the professionals who rose to commemorate the American ideal after the Revolution-Horatio Greenough, Hiram Powers and Thomas Crawford-looks curiously wistful. Hiram Powers' The Greek Slave was the first internationally famous work of art produced by an American; when it toured the U.S. in 1847 it created a sensation and people queued to see it. Yet today, as one gazes on this chaste pastiche of the Medici Venus, it seems more an anthropological document and less...
...Adams, a veteran of many political and combat assignments, who found the chance to work in and around the fashion battlefields of Seventh Avenue a welcome change. The reporting for the story was begun weeks ago by New York Correspondent Eileen Shields. She confesses to having once been "a slave of fashion," but uncomfortable about her bondage at times-"especially," she says, "during the hot-pants rage of 1971." No problem with today's less self-conscious styles, however...
...weep, perhaps with laughter. Three incompatible cultures met late in the 18th century, when English explorers began to poke into the great fever swamp of western Africa that is now Nigeria. Arab traders had arrived 300 years earlier, recommending their religion and bringing news that a minor local industry, slave raiding, could be the basis of a thriving export trade. The Britons advocated their own faith. They also urged the unwelcome view that slavery was immoral. It interfered with the manpower needed for the palm-oil trade...
Only after four decades of exploration did the world learn that the Niger flowed northeast, then took a mighty turn at Timbuctoo and continued south into the Gulf of Guinea at the slave-trading settlement called Brass...
Kanfer mentions that "some 5 million slave laborers" were "employed" by Speer and calls his Russian captors "harsh and arbitrary." For stealing a cauliflower, Speer gets one week of solitary confinement...