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Nettie Moore The name comes from a slave song, a lament for the singer’s woman who has been sold and gone off to New Orleans with her new master. The song is reminiscent of “L&T’s” “Sugar Baby,” which was much darker and maybe my favorite from that album, with a great acoustic version Dylan did in his Harvard concert Nov. 21, 2004. He throws in a sly Dylan comment on Dylan scholarship: “Well, the world of research has gone...
...learned from that experience is the importance of keeping a clean ship, a concept clearly lost on this year’s current contenders. Take Tom D. Hadfield ’08, for example, whose campaign manager told The Crimson on Monday, “I am a slave driver.” A less amateur candidate would recognize the obvious liabilities of employing a slave driver in a country where slavery was abolished more than 100 years ago. Perhaps Hadfield and his band of bigots should take their act to Dubai. Ryan A. Petersen...
...slave driver,” says Hadfield’s campaign manager Katherine A. Beck ’08, who is also a Crimson business editor...
...matter the classic book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in an antebellum age; the plight of runaway slave Nigger Jim is given equal consideration as that of his young white friend. Through Nigger Jim, the concept of racial parity, the examination of the system of slavery were forced upon Southern segregationists...
DIED. William Styron, 81, writer of morally provocative epics--including Lie Down in Darkness and The Confessions of Nat Turner--that explore, in agonizing detail, the human capacity for evil; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. A descendant of slave owners, Styron became obsessed as a boy with the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner, which began not far from his childhood home in Newport News, Va. Confessions, written in the first person, drew bitter criticism from black leaders, who called it presumptuous, but won Styron a Pulitzer Prize. Along with Sophie's Choice, the harrowing tale of an Auschwitz...