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...cities, harbinger of the full-size train to come. When that vehicle, powered by a steam locomotive, gets under way, it will be carrying such diverse samples of the national heritage as the first Bible printed in the U.S., George Washington's copy of the Constitution, a slave bill of sale, a lunar rover and a copy of the Louisiana Purchase deal...
General Ches nut said many people were light hearted at the ruin of the great slave owners. He quoted some one: 'They will have no Negroes now to lord it over! They can swell and peacock about and tyrannize now over only a small parcel of women and children, those only who are their very own family...
...Chavez's contracts left the workers defenseless. If anyone wanted to work he had to be in "good standing" with Cesar Chavez. As one Washington columnist wrote, "These glorious contracts reek of the docks--the docks of Charleston and New Orleans 120 years ago. Like slave traders and plantation owners, Chavez and the growers are buying and selling human beings...
...strike, will be shown along with The Memorial Day Massacre (1937), a newsreel suppressed by Paramount executives for being too inflammatory. Willard Van Dyke's Valley Town(1940), a film showing the devastating effects of technological unemployment, will be screened with Walter Niebuhr's Machine: Master or Slave? (1941), which suggests, conversely, that the threat to jobs and well-being is only temporary...
Genovese says the Christianity--indeed, any belief the slaves could have evolved from the reality of their daily lives--was less suitable as a weapon for attack than for passive resistance. It let the slaves "act like men," even though "they could not grasp their collective strength as a people and and act like political men." It allowed for people like the old slave who answered a young white minister's "Primarily, we must postulate the existence of a deity," with a gentle, "Yes, Lord, dat's so. Bless de Lord." It allowed slaves to be compassionate even after...