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9 May 2017, 8:31 am
It will become all one thing or all the other. [read post]
27 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
(Here Foner laments the irony of that canard, when so many slave women were sexually assaulted by their white masters. [read post]
17 Apr 2017, 6:00 am
But Klarman does a masterful job of demonstrating precisely how improbable the task confronting the Philadelphia delegates was when they assembled in 1787. [read post]
8 Apr 2017, 1:01 am
She reviews the process that started with slave masters’ use of black women’s bodies to increase their slave holdings, to racist eugenics policies that resulted in the surreptitious sterilization of thousands of black women, to attempts to restrict the fertility of black women on the grounds that they are inflating the welfare roles. [read post]
29 Mar 2017, 1:05 am
Gold, the heaviest, required the most extreme conditions and energy to form, as all elements were generated, from lighter elements. [read post]
27 Mar 2017, 4:49 am
After all, didn’t slave owners wear pantaloons? [read post]
23 Mar 2017, 4:37 pm
What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of… [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 2:09 pm
In addition, joining lawsuits gives citizens direct access to governmental officials-judges-who can hear their arguments about issues central to our democracy, including the proper extent of police power and the ability of all people to vote. [read post]
12 Mar 2017, 7:36 am
We are in the 21st Century and we don’t serve our masters anymore. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 8:00 am
There was a conflict in legal authorities as to whether black servants remained slaves, or became free on arrival in England.Lord Mansfield, the chief justice of the court of King's Bench, was a central figure in all the cases and clearly struggled to come to terms with slavery. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 8:22 am
— This article was adopted with a view to restoring fugitive slaves to their masters — ambiguous, to be sure, but sufficiently explicit to answer the end sought to be attained. [read post]
24 Jan 2017, 12:01 am
This masterful and riveting non-fiction book is about one of the bravest men in the history of this country, who died on this day in history. [read post]
11 Jan 2017, 5:01 pm
Defeating self-deception is not a once-and-for-all battl [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 7:26 pm
Ana disclosed the lascivious nature of her master’s obsession with her, and also her dogged pursuit of a legal solution to her situation. [read post]
18 Dec 2016, 4:08 am
When BLM morphed into complaints that the word “master” hurt black Yale students’ feelings as it reminded them of slave masters, or that Princeton students demanded the removal of the name Woodrow Wilson, a United States and university president, from a wall, they lost it. [read post]
17 Dec 2016, 7:20 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]
26 Nov 2016, 12:01 am
Her master spoke only Dutch, so that’s what she spoke also. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 12:01 am
Many slaves leaped at the offer. [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]
10 Oct 2016, 6:00 am
The project hinges on the basic fact that from the mid-seventeenth-century through the American Civil War, the labor and vigilance of elite slaveholders alone was far from sufficient to police and keep intact the coercive foundations of the master-slave relationship. [read post]
