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...reports by Jack White and Joseph Boyce for this week's cover story often bordered on autobiography. Contributing Editor White's first file, on the historical roots of the black middle class, came particularly close to home, as White's grandfather was born a slave and his father, the youngest of 17 children, is a physician and professor at Howard University Medical School. White attended Swarthmore College and covered black affairs for the Washington Post and Nashville's Race Relations Reporter before joining TIME in 1972. To ensure that the middle-class black families he interviewed...
...findings of Labor Expert Doris B. McLaughlin that professional women are often exploitive of their maids [May 6] remind me of a story of a slave in ancient Rome. Upon being informed that his master, newly converted to Christianity, was soon to set all his slaves free, the man discussed with some of his fellows what each was going to do. While his fellow slaves had all kinds of ideas, his own was, "I'll buy two slaves to take care...
...audience would understand him if he used the stereotypical dialogue-'Ah's gwine down de ribah'-so we had to handle the language and the attitude. We had to sustain the dignity of the man." He and his brother Robert proceeded to elevate the slave's image by altering his name (he is Nigger Jim no longer, just plain Jim) and giving him a couple of songs to sing. "Gotta get away to Cairo/Ai-ro/Illinois!" he croons brightly with Huck as they pole their way upstream toward freedom and a soundtrack record album...
Time on the Cross addresses itself to these questions anyway, in one of its most important chapters, on the slave family. Fogel and Engerman maintain that slave families were strong, nuclear patriarchal families--just the reverse of the stereotype popularized by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, or the picture of uprooted slaves forced to recognize only their masters as father figures that Stanley M. Elkins '49 paints in his eloquent Slavery...
APART FROM showing that slave women generally had no children till they married (at an average age of 22.5), Fogel and Engerman present little positive statistical evidence for their position. Instead, they just ask some reasonable questions: wouldn't business motives and moral scruples combined be a strong enough combination to keep planters from tearing apart families when they didn't have to? Why wouldn't the rich owner of a large plantation just keep a mistress in town, where she wouldn't trouble his wife or his labor supply? Or, if masters were so sexually attracted by their slaves...