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19 Jun 2013, 7:21 am by Bart Torvik
Reserved for offenders whose crimes were thought to pose an especially grave threat to the social order—such as slaves who killed their masters and women who killed their husbands—burning a person alive was so dreadful a punishment that sheriffs sometimes hanged the offender first “as an act of charity. [read post]
9 Jun 2013, 7:02 am by The Book Review Editor
As in the previous conflict, the British held out the prospect of freedom to slaves in return for their desertion of their masters and support of the British side. [read post]
11 May 2013, 10:06 pm by Old Fox
It's the divine law that was set out by God to be followed by his slaves. [read post]
29 Apr 2013, 9:18 am by Kelly Buchanan
  William Bligh was the commander of the ship and he selected Fletcher Christian to be the master’s mate. [read post]
28 Apr 2013, 1:36 pm by Buce
” But he only nodded with his head, making no reply at all, nor showing any other courtesy. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 11:14 am by Jeff Gamso
  Still.Thomas Jefferson said,I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.The slaveholder was referring to slavery.Commerce between master and slave is despotism. [read post]
5 Mar 2013, 12:36 pm by Stephen Gottlieb
I can’t help thinking about the remarks that George Mason, one of our Founding Fathers, made in the Constitutional Convention about the arrogance of power and the ways that having power corrupts the mind, when he told the Convention that “Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. [read post]
4 Mar 2013, 6:32 am by The Charge
  And, there is a claim that they did not all pay their bills on time. [read post]
25 Feb 2013, 2:39 pm by John J. Sullivan
 For those of you who saw it, wasn’t it great to cheer Django on as he whipped the heck out of his former slave master? [read post]
18 Feb 2013, 8:08 pm by Jim Walker
They're basically slaves -- and if there's sewage on the walls? [read post]
12 Feb 2013, 7:40 am by Francisco Macías
Now this notion of the master and slave being equals led to later practices of role reversal. [read post]
11 Feb 2013, 4:25 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Her master, Missus Lu, sometimes allows her to paint with her in her studio. [read post]
30 Dec 2012, 6:05 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
John Campbell, master distiller at Laphroaig . [read post]
15 Nov 2012, 1:02 pm by Margaret Wood
Hill who said “[S]ome examples claim to own twenty negroes, and with justice might claim to be masters of an infinite amount of cowardice.”[1]  This provision was amended in 1863 and again in 1864 when the requirement of the $500 payment was changed to a bond to provide 100 pounds of meat to the government for each able-bodied slave. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 9:03 pm by Prof. Akhil Reed Amar, guest-blogging
But then, so was the Thirteenth Amendment itself — which redistributed slave property from masters to slaves with no compensation. [read post]