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...also difficult simply to dismiss the SLA's political motives if you consider the seriousness of the SLA's political symbolism and the political framework within which its members saw their mission. DeFreeze took the name Cinque, the name of an African slave who led a slave ship revolt in 1839. The SLA's food plan resembles the tactics of the Argentine Revolutionary Army of the People, a terrorist group which has successfully demanded food, clothing, and medical equipment in ransom for kidnaped corporation executives. The set of SLA demands to Randolph Hearst involved no payments...
...clear the manner in which injury is to be avenged. "Thou shall give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth," says the Book of Exodus. In Sura II of the Koran the Prophet advises: "O believers, prescribed for you is retaliation touching the slain; freeman for freeman, slave for slave, female for female." Unfortunately for the Middle East, this sense of bitter, retaliatory justice persists to the present...
...some Yale men among the dissenters. Were they stranded from the South's social and intellectual confines after their leaves of absence? Degler also gives examples of slaveholding white Southerners who began to oppose slavery because of what they saw as its inherent horrors--the lashings, the separation of slave families. If these Southerners comprise a significant sample, they challenge one thesis of Time on the Cross, a new and highly controversial econometric study of Southern slavery, which maintains that cruelty or breaking up of families were exceptions to a generally humane rule of Southern slavery...
...actors (among whom are John Philip Law, as Sinbad, and Caroline Munro, as the flimsily dressed slave girl who is along on the voyage largely for scenic purposes) are not quite so animated as the mythic creatures surrounding them. The movie is short on talk, except for the windbag wizard (Tom Baker) who plays the villain, and long on action, quite the proper proportion for entertainments like this. Sinbad is light, silly fun, and kids will probably appreciate both the skillful technique of the fantasy and the fact that the film makers have had the good sense not to include...
During his five years in Paris, Jefferson was attended by his quadroon slave girl, Sally Hemings, who-to complicate matters-had been fathered by his father-in-law. Though she could have technically claimed freedom in France, Sally and her oldest son remained slaves when Jefferson returned to Washington in 1789 to become Secretary of State. Although the details of the relationship have never been clear, Brodie claims that in 38 years Jefferson had seven children by Sally Hemings. Her prominent place in Brodie's biography offers one of the few rational clues to Jefferson's ambiguous position...