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3 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
Rather than despair that “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” African-American activists and their white political allies understood that the master’s tools were the only tools available to dismantle the master’s house, that any new tools could be forged only by using the old tools. [read post]
7 Jul 2013, 8:27 am
For example, Fort Polk is named after a plantation master of several hundred slaves. [read post]
24 Feb 2021, 4:55 pm
They are watching for runaways, and to see if any other slaves come among theirs, or theirs go off among others. [read post]
16 Jun 2008, 10:14 pm
Yes, what this book documents in great detail are the complicated family relationships between white masters and their African slaves during the colonial and early federal period of American history. [read post]
16 Jan 2015, 12:01 am
Masters and overseers can marshal them for battle by the same authority and habit of obedience with which they are marshaled to labor. [read post]
5 Jul 2012, 5:40 am
Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 4:23 pm
It's an amazing document - articulate, wise, deeply felt, and a masterful argument. [read post]
20 Jun 2022, 9:48 am
The American story is all of ours. [read post]
19 Jun 2020, 2:30 am
The resulting legislation was the Fugitive Slave Act, an early example of zero tolerance that required the expedited return of runaways to their masters. [read post]
19 Jun 2019, 1:31 am
The resulting legislation was the Fugitive Slave Act, an early example of zero tolerance that required the expedited return of runaways to their masters. [read post]
13 Apr 2022, 4:59 am
While the Massachusetts legislature banned the slave trade in 1788, ships that sailed from its ports continued to engage in the slave trade in the course of their travels. [read post]
15 Nov 2013, 1:02 am
In contradistinction, Jefferson stipulated that only five of his slaves be freed even upon his death (all of them were from the Hemings family). [read post]
12 Sep 2021, 4:10 pm
All of that and more happened, while the leaders of the free world have stood and watched. [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 7:40 am
Now this notion of the master and slave being equals led to later practices of role reversal. [read post]
10 Feb 2007, 2:08 am
Americans like Percy Julian's great-grandmother were owned, and their bodies bore the scars of their master's whips. [read post]
13 Apr 2021, 9:53 am
Prior to 1780, there had been about 30 freedom suits brought forward in which slaves sought freedom from their masters on legal technicalities, such as a mother's slave status (if unclear). [read post]
5 Oct 2023, 4:59 am
Section Nine’s discussion of fugitive slaves speaks of “persons . . . engaged in rebellion . . . or who shall in any way give aid or comfort. [read post]
13 Sep 2021, 1:01 am
But even though the North had won the war, there was no immediate legal basis for eliminating slavery or for protecting the newly freed slaves from the depredations or their former masters. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 4:25 am
Her master, Missus Lu, sometimes allows her to paint with her in her studio. [read post]
17 Mar 2011, 5:03 pm
In the Dred Scott case (60 U.S. 393, 1857), the Supreme Court declared that all people of African ancestry, whether slave or free, were not citizens of the United States. [read post]
