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This is the story of another Alexander Hamilton, a mildly libertine Scottish physician who left Maryland in 1744 on horseback, with his Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
Lewis, the son of a Methodist minister who had been born a slave, came to the Harvard Law School in 1893 after a highly successful career as an athlete, scholar, and debater at Amherst. Under the eligibility rules of that time he was able to continue playing football at Harvard while a law student...
...family feud, had dug up Davis Knight's genealogy. His great-grandfather had been Cap'n Newt Knight, who deserted the Confederate Army and set up "The Free State of Jones" in Jones County. Cap'n Newt had had children by Rachel, a Negro slave girl. Rachel was Davis Knight's great-grandmother...
Through all this historical process, everything is relative -meaning that although a slave-owning economy is viewed as deplorable today, it was once, when it had just succeeded the primitive communal system, a "step forward." In other words, there is no "eternal justice." Men's ideas, their point of view (their "consciousness"), are reflections of these contradictions, of these struggling, contending forces, and of their eruptions into new things. Says Stalin: "The material life of society . . . is primary, and its spiritual life secondary, derivative." An example (not Stalin's): in the U.S. frontier days...
...tell us one, Vyacheslav. We won't repeat it. You can't get into any trouble with us." The Russian thought for a long time, then he said, "Dalstroy." "Dalstroy," cried the Poles. "That's not a funny story. That's one of your biggest slave-labor projects in Siberia." "That's right," said the Russian, "but some tellers of very funny stories helped to build...