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...army's backing. He had promised that he would do something for the country's poor black majority, who for years have been exploited by a small clique of mulattoes. Instead, Duvalier, who was very dark, immediately imposed a reign of terror on a nation whose slave origins made it no stranger to brutality. His secret policemen, the Tontons Macoutes (Creole for "bogeymen"), murdered and tortured his opponents, sometimes leaving a victim's severed head on display in a marketplace as a warning to others. They also collected unofficial taxes and tribute from cowed Haitian businessmen...
Birmingham quickly skips from Spain to the Sephardim's arrival in the New World. Despite Peter Stuyvesant, who considered them "godless rascals," they were soon slave-trading with the best people and prospering. In a familiar pattern, the book alternates scandals with successes. Benjamin Cardozo replaced Oliver Wendell Holmes on the Supreme Court. Annie Nathan Meyer founded Barnard College at age 22. The Revolution would have been fought, but almost certainly not won, without Sephardic money. Then there was Uriah Levy. He fought anti-Semitism in the U.S. Navy, kept a mezuzah outside his cabin door, and finally, when...
Here in the Free State of Maryland, we also have a tradition of freedom. religious tolerance, established by the Maryland Assembly 13 years after the founding of Harvard College. There are some traditions you don't throw out without a fight, unless you are ready to be someone's slave. And freedom is one of them...
Oliver, who used Elmwood to quarter a number of General Burgoyne's British troops, was made to leave the house after the Revolution. It is recorded in his class report that the new government was upset following Olivers eviction when it found an emaciated, undernourished slave child there and had to care...
...story, going all the way back to Tom Molineaux, the prima inter pares of the American slave gladiators, who became the country's first heavyweight champion. Born on a Virginia plantation, Molineaux fought against the prime "black bucks" from other plantations while the masters wagered high stakes on the outcome. After he had beaten all comers and therefore was no longer of use to his master, Molineaux was given his freedom. He moved to New York and became the premier boxer on the Waterfront. Exhausting American competition, Molineaux then went to England to take on the English champion, Tom Cribb...