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Dillard explains that Black English first began to take form during the period immediately before the Atlantic slave trade. As Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English traders began to comb the coasts of Africa looking for chattel, a number of Africans began to incorporate European words into their vocabulary. When the great slave trade began, blacks from many different language groups were thrown together in ships and packed off to the New World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that...
...free is with this!" he shouted, waving his Luger. Putting the weapon to the head of a newsman, Ron Pinkney, he demanded: "What's the matter, black man? Are you afraid to die? Blacks who do not fight and give into the white man are slave niggers." He turned on a white man and asked him what he did for a living. When the man replied that he worked for IBM, Tuller flipped again. "I didn't like your looks when you got on!" he screamed. "I should have killed you then...
...South Vietnamese are of goodwill, Ambassador Xuan Thuy told The New York Times, "we can settle immediately, but without goodwill, we can do nothing." His words bring to mind the "Eagle and the Fox" by the ancient Greek slave Aesop. The eagle had pledged to be friends with the fox. But one day, while it was away hunting, the eagle abducted the fox's cubs to feed to her hungry eaglets. The fox was unable to take revenge until a burning entrail, which the eagle had brought home from a sacrificial altar, set her nest on fire. As the eaglets...
...Texas prisons are being reformed and the conditions that gave impetus to these songs are rapidly disappearing. The prisoners don't sing the songs as often as they used to, and only the older inmates remember the days when men would sever their Achilles tendons in order to avoid slave labor in the cane and cotton fields. By recording the stories and songs of the prisoners, Jackson has provided a valuable record of one of the bleaker chapters in American history...
...fratricide Cain. Supported mainly by the Mormon Book of Abraham, a document "translated" from Egyptian burial papyri by Joseph Smith in 1835, this teaching resembles the Southern Christian theology that was used to justify slavery. Historians have noted that the Mormons, who began as egalitarians, were sojourning in slave-state Missouri-and having serious troubles with their Missouri neighbors about their free black brethren-when Smith's revelation was made known. The curse does not apply to other black peoples, such as those in the South Pacific, who have become members of the Mormon priesthood...