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Then something snapped. Standing in front of the funeral home, a small group of Negroes began to sing. "Before I'll be a slave," they chanted, "I'll be buried in my grave and go home to my Lord." Other Negroes joined in. "No more killin' here, no more killin' over here." Soon a whole chorus of swaying, hand-clapping people was sobbing, "No more Jim Crow over here, over here; I'm dead before I'd be a slave...
...Zonas is a man most likely to survive, his friend Dasius is an idealist most unlikely to do so. The restless son of a Roman freedman and a Greek slave, he yearns for the dark freedom of Carthage's Africa, finds it, and loses everything. In time of war, Bryher suggests, it is advisable to make only the smallest demands upon life...
...Stevenson observed, "most women have a large and obvious dicontinuity to face." He said that the life of the mind must "coexist with the life of the diaper and the kitchen sink," and asked if the future of yesterday's Radcliffe graduates must be a change "from scholar to slave...
...Others includes Eric martin, who I am conscious if not linking nearly so well as I ought to. Mr. Martin, an inventive slave, is busier than anybody else in showing how deucedly come he is, and no doubt that's the way roman comedy really was played; I however was horribly enervated by it. It also includes Lynn Milgrim, a glorious courtesan in net stockings and high heels, and kendra stearns, her maid, who assumes a pleasantly nearsighted stare every time she is confronted with an pleasant situation...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, by Frederick Douglass. In an autobiography he published in 1845 (reissued now in paperback), the greatest American Negro of the last century recalls his life as a slave...