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Benito Cereno Wallace. The wiliest slave on the slaveship gets a letter from a fellow passenger. It is signed...
...SUCH SLAVE souls as ours!" wrote Ibsen in 1882. "Norway is a free country peopled by unfree men and women." When Ghosts was first produced, critics condemned the "morbid, unhealthy, unwholesome and disgusting story...
...thematic categories. Each brings to mind a genre of music and the environment it thrives in. "Edge of the Blues" is explicitly modeled after the sinuous, superstitious rhythm of jazz, blues and gospel. The stanzas wind through snatches of borrowed lyrics and a pair of lines reminiscent of a slave song, whose plea has been transported into a scene of city night life: "Just show me God, quick./Then let me sleep./...and all the soft windows of the neighborhood/are darkening, one by one." There's a snake in the poem--it is embodied by the restless musicians and their...
...Inside the Third Reich, has unique credentials for speculation on the nature of evil and culpability. The architect was literally the Master Builder of the Third Reich and Hitler's Minister of Armaments and War Production. It was in his ministerial capacity that Speer employed some 5 million slave laborers; it was for that role that he was sentenced at the Nuremberg trials to long imprisonment...
...Harriet Tubman crouches behind a stand of trees that edge the slave quarters of a Maryland plantation, her song wafts across the dark night. "Who's that yonder dressed in red?/ I heard the angels singing./ Looks like the children that Moses led./ I heard the angels singing." The plaintive melody is a mythic signal, readily understood: she is the "Moses" who is leading her people out of bondage. Moments after Harriet's song has ended, the passengers join her on the Underground Railroad, moving North to freedom...