Word: slaving
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However, simply to maintain physical custody over the inmate is to be no closer to having him under total control than was holding a slave the enslaving of the man. The uncontrolled inmate, though he may be safely in his cell today, tomorrow could be over the wall, just as the smiling and quaintly intelligent darkie of yesterday turned out to be Nat Turner...
...cool men (James Garner and Lou Gossett) roam the pre-Civil War West performing an efficient little Skin Game. Taking advantage of the heavy slave traffic, Garner auctions Gossett off to the highest bidder. Gossett rolls his eyes, shuffles along behind his new master, escapes at his first chance and meets Garner outside of town, where they split the profits and have a good laugh. It all works splendidly until they run afoul of a shrewd little swindler (Susan Clark) and an angry gentleman, name of John Brown. Part adventure, part easygoing comedy, Skin Game is an amiable pleasure about...
When Robert Jackson and his teen-age son George went to Los Angeles in 1956, they were attempting to effect a traditional American escape. At the time, it is doubtful that either knew any more about the place to which he was going than had the 19th Century fugitive slave or frontiersman, but both Jacksons knew well where they had been...
...time loser at the time, Jackson had nothing to gain by his guilty plea. Allowing for inflation, Jackson's $3,000 price tag was less than he--19 years old, 6 feet, and a solid two hundred pounds--would have been worth on the slave blocks of Charleston, Savannah, or Richmond...
...total environment. He was separated from his wife by the system. Work for men was impossible to find in Harrisburg. He was living and working in Chicago--sending his wage back to the people downstate. He was an extremely aggressive man, and since aggression on the part of the slave means crime, he was in jail now and then. He tried to direct my great energy into the proper form of protest. He invented long simple allegories that always pictured the white politicians as animals...He and my mother went to great pains to impress on me that...