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...deep enough into any family and you can turn up some pretty interesting dirt. Ancestry.com found that Coleman Sharpton, the great-grandfather of civil rights activist AL SHARPTON, was a slave owned by Julia Thurmond, whose grandfather was the great-great-grandfather of Senator STROM THURMOND. Yep, ancestors of the deceased icon of segregation owned ancestors of the permed icon of Brooklyn, N.Y. "The shame is that people were owned as property," said the ever voluble Sharpton, who used the revelation to do a little sermonizing. "Strom Thurmond ran for President in 1948 on a segregationist ticket...
...James Henry Hammond, a South Carolina planter and senator, a real “man’s man,” one of those who fought the battles while the women stayed at home. Incidentally, he was also a main advocate behind the movement to reopen the slave trade, and was involved in breaking up the Democratic party on the eve of the Civil...
...Lacaria is welcome to his opinion (“The Apotheosis of Dr. Faust,” column, Feb. 11) about the selection of Harvard’s new president. But casting aspersions on President-elect Faust’s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust’s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War?...
...time required them to be. Letters home from Roman soldiers, preserved by the dry sands of Egypt, reveal sentimental and faithful sons urging their fathers to write back after experiencing the fury and terror of battle, setting fire to other nations' houses and selling entire families to slave traders. Elliott was also right in his remark on the doubtful sexual appetites of the greatest of all ancient peoples, the Greeks, which they justified with philosophy. This is also the fascination of reading ancient literature: learning about the complexity of the human character. Eugen Scherer Vienna More Trees, Fewer Chimneys...
...understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people - as Americans...