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...wonder Judging by the number of billboards, Senegal's best-selling food product is stock cubes - but if you're persistent, you'll encounter plenty of zesty meals there without instant bouillon. And if you're a soul-food fan, you're in luck: by virtue of the slave trade, Senegalese cuisine was one of the key influences on African-American cooking. Senegal's Atlantic coastline ensures an abundance of seafood - grouper, monkfish and sea bream are common - while peanuts, millet and cassava are harvested from the central savanna area. Given Morocco's proximity, couscous is almost as widespread...
...debate—most people who care to listen would agree that slavery is wrong and should be discontinued. Yet frustratingly few people support our cause. Almost nobody in America realizes that 27 million human beings are still enslaved today, more than at the height of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade—and tens of thousands of them reside on American soil...
Genetic testing has a special attraction for African Americans because most have no other way to trace their lineage; the slave trade did a thorough job of severing their African roots. Washington-based African Ancestry aims to re-establish these links by telling its customers whether their DNA matches that of any of hundreds of ethnic groups in Africa, from the Hausa in northern Nigeria to the Ashantis in Ghana. For Juanita Thompson, a real estate agent in Arlington, Va., the test had special significance because her mother had been adopted as an infant and her birth family was unknown...
...Accepting the nomination to run for U.S. Senate against Stephen A. Douglas, Lincoln declares: "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free." Lincoln loses the race but gains national attention...
Unusual among antislavery orators in the 1850s, Lincoln sought to comprehend the Southerners' position through empathy rather than castigate slave owners as corrupt and un-Christian men. He argued, "They are just what we would be in their situation. If slavery did not now exist amongst them, they would not introduce it. If it did now exist amongst us, we should not instantly give it up." It was useless, he explained in another address, to employ "thundering tones of anathema and denunciation," for denunciation would be met by denunciation, "anathema with anathema...