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Making a "shipping agent" of the Alcoa Line (which had been willing to arbitrate), the Commission set up its own hiring hall, began signing on men. At week's end, after a seven-day tie-up, two of the struck cargo vessels, the Alcoa Banner and the Alcoa Trader, steamed out of New York Harbor. Others would follow as fast as they were loaded and the Commission could man them...
...hero, Slave Trader Matthew Flood, is built like a souped-up Abraham Lincoln and is as tough, lascivious and predatory as Rhett Butler. Its heroine, Pallas Burmester, is an Abolitionist and a sort of vanguard feminist, but she is also a woman of spirit and of adequate sex appeal. The settings-Bristol, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Spain, of the late 18th Century-exude that wasted "authenticity" of the Hollywood superproduction. Added attractions: informative data about the slave trade, some warm stuff about a Negro concubine, vignettes of convent and plantation life, a storm at sea, litigations over an estate...
...Texas revolution. The tract was hilly, bone-dry, good for nothing except a scrubby growth of pine, and Strickland never bothered with it. He left Montgomery County, vanished into mists of hearsay; some people said he had been shot to death. In 1847 a Portuguese freebooter and slave trader named Allen Vince sued him for a $200 debt, got a judgment against the land. But Vince never bothered with it either...
This procedure, plus his capacity for shooting fanatical golf in the yos, nets him a pretty penny. But not from Bing Crosby. The crooner has bested him so often that Hope calls him Trader Horn...
...finest tributes to Handy was a letter in 1915 from an African trader in Sierra Leone: "Seeing that you are bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh, I desire to enter into some relations whereby we [in Africa] may avail ourselves of your music." Handy's book, like his music, is most significant as the life story of a talented Negro in the U.S. Handy makes neither much nor little of the racial question, but he does refer to it, on occasion. And now & again he speaks directly, for Jews as well as Negroes, with a lack...