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17 Dec 2010, 7:30 am
Slaves were treated as equals, allowed to wear their masters’ clothing, and be waited on at meal time in remembrance of an earlier golden age thought to have been ushered in by the god. [read post]
15 Jun 2019, 1:01 am
But in the last of these agreements, the Compromise of 1850, the slave states achieved nearly all they had advocated. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 5:26 am
It may be, after all, that the hour calls more loudly for silence than for speech. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 2:45 pm
After all, only a master would demand civility. [read post]
28 Aug 2012, 10:00 am
Yet, such localized arrangements suffered as white men began to increasingly adopt a "political discourse of rights" that not only intruded on the legal localism governing master/slave relations but also implicated the rights of free blacks. [read post]
20 May 2010, 3:08 pm
Elect leaders who will bring us hope and change.And so you all voted for Barack Obama. [read post]
12 Aug 2010, 8:20 am
The fundamental idea is that the basis of legal right is the ability to decide for yourself what your purposes will be or, put otherwise, to be your own master and slave to none. [read post]
9 Oct 2017, 9:30 pm
Between 1865 and 1950, in almost a thousand civil cases across eight southern states, former slaves took their former masters to court, black sharecroppers litigated against white landowners, and African Americans with little formal education brought disputes against wealthy white members of their communities.As black southerners negotiated a legal system with almost all white gate-keepers, they found that certain kinds of civil cases were much easier to gain whites'… [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 4:13 am
Indeed, he owned slaves, and upon his death he bequeathed all his slaves but one to others. [read post]
29 Mar 2011, 4:22 pm
Most literally, perhaps, is the story of Frederick Douglass, who overheard his slave-master say, “Learning would spoil the best [slave] in the world . . . if you teacher that [slave] how to read, there would be no keeping him,” and thereafter “understood the pathway from slavery to freedom. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 6:30 am
Every serious scholar of the period must read this masterful work. [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 8:08 pm
They're basically slaves -- and if there's sewage on the walls? [read post]
16 Jul 2020, 5:00 pm
Preach to us all. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 10:15 pm
In 1853, he had the balls to defend a slave accused of murder. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 6:07 am
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 8:10 pm
Except, of course, Kwanzaa isn't traditional at all. [read post]
24 Sep 2009, 9:29 pm
Because we're all going to be able to outspend our corporate masters. [read post]
11 Jul 2013, 2:29 am
He did not demur from making his opinion of slavery known, and from trying to get legislation passed to ensure that “the first and holiest rights of humanity [will not] depend upon the color of the skin”: It perverts human reason … to maintain that slavery is sanctioned by the Christian religion, that slaves are happy and contented in their condition, that between master and slave there are ties of mutual attachment and affection, that the virtues of the… [read post]
3 Nov 2016, 1:01 am
He did not demur from making his opinion of slavery known, and from trying to get legislation passed to ensure that “the first and holiest rights of humanity [will not] depend upon the color of the skin”: It perverts human reason … to maintain that slavery is sanctioned by the Christian religion, that slaves are happy and contented in their condition, that between master and slave there are ties of mutual attachment and affection, that the virtues of the… [read post]
22 Oct 2015, 6:11 am
Similarly, Pennsylvania’s “land tax” levied not only on land, but on livestock, slaves, and indentured servants. [read post]
