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Jefferson & Jackson. The first slave to be sold on what was to become U.S. soil, Furnas says, landed at Jamestown in 1619, a full year before the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth. The early settlers saw nothing immoral in slavery, since many a white was himself an indentured servant and little better off. Economically, slave labor was on the way out when Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin and made it profitable to keep huge tracts of land in cultivation. Even so, a rich planter might clear no more than a 1% profit annually. A representative weekly food ration...
...Slaves could marry, but the union was not legally recognized in the South. One Kentucky minister with auction-block separations in mind amended the words in slave weddings to "till death or distance do you part." Women slaves were often prey to the master's amatory whims. Some historians hold that even the great Jefferson fathered mulatto offspring and he was twitted for it in caustic verse...
...estimated 6,000,000 Jews and untold numbers of gypsies and slave laborers perished in the racial and religious mass murder of Naziism. But there were other victims whose "crimes" were individual and matters of conscience. Here, 57 such victims, most of them German Christians, speak their last from Hitler's charnel houses; their words blend into a vox humana whose organ tone speaks of things older than man's inhumanity...
After three years in a slave-labor camp in Siberia, he was released when Stalin died. He fled to the West and came to this country on the Conant Scholarship. Bachmannn plans another television tour sometime after exams...
...Russian slave laborers had erred in thinking that a rewrite of the Stalin hagiography necessarily involves a revision of Stalin penology. The only inmates of the camp to benefit from the Kremlin's post-Stalin policy were seven Austrian P.W.s who (after eleven years in Soviet slave labor camps) were released a fortnight later in fulfillment of a Soviet promise to the new Austrian government. In Vienna last week one of the Austrians, telling the story of the Mirnoye revolt, gave the West a useful reminder of the unchanging reality behind the redecorated Soviet...