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...Paris apartment and even joke when one is dropped off by a customer: "I wonder how those girls keep their hairdos in such good shape." But she will not be bourgeois. Grace would like her to take a cooking course at Maxim's. Says Caroline: "We have slaves for that." Replies Grace gently: "Yes, darling, I am your slave...
...Ursa the question of biological imperatives perpetuates her family's history. On her great-grandmother's lap at the age of five, the child began to hear about the slave family's special bondage to a corrupt 19th century Portuguese coffeegrower called Corregidora. He took first Ursa's great-grandmother and then Ursa's grandmother-his own child-out of his Brazilian plantation fields and turned both women into enthralled concubines and whores. With considerable dignity First Novelist Gayl Jones explores black female sexuality and the remnants of slave brutality that still fester in black...
...most promising feature of the team was the new coach, Bob Scalese, a former All-American at Brown University. Scalese, who doubles as an assistant coach for the soccer team, quickly earned a reputation as a slave driver. If nothing else, and there was little else, the lacrosse team was in fine physical condition...
DuBois received his B.A. in 1890, his M.A. in 1891, and his Ph.D. in 1895, submitting a thesis entitled "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870." It was published a year later as the first volume in Harvard Historical Studies. After travelling and studying in Europe for a couple of years under a grant from the John Slater Fund, he returned to America to join the faculty of Wilberforce Seminary in Ohio, transferred to the University of Pennsylvania, and finally became a professor of Economics and History at Atlanta University, where...
...perceived as a god of conquest and bloodshed by humans who set up an empire based on the enslavement of the conquered. Brutality is commonplace in this society: slavers drown a little girl, for instance, and hack off a boy's hand. The great bear finally kills the chief slave trader, but undergoes great suffering in doing so, and ends the book perceived as a god of sacrifice. The empire disintegrates, and the hero is reduced to ordinary business, "picking up the pieces," what Adams says "we're all here for." He claims his concern in Shardik is to direct...