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18 Jun 2019, 9:01 pm by Rodger Citron
”While I do not fully subscribe to any of these interpretations—either that of Posner or those of Weisberg and Winter—all of them are plausible. [read post]
25 Jan 2021, 3:39 pm by Yalitza Ledgister
  In her 2016 dissertation she wrote: It has taken me nearly ten years to complete my master’s degree and this doctoral degree. [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]
20 Nov 2022, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Both sides of her family were of mixed racial origins, with ancestors including Black slaves, white slave owners, Native Americans, Irish, and free Black people. [read post]
1 Jan 2018, 9:01 am by Alfred Brophy
 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 disputes against white landowners, and African Americans with little formal education brought disputes against wealthy white members of their communities. [read post]
8 Apr 2009, 6:44 am
The Israelites I'm the 432nd slave from the right! [read post]
27 Sep 2010, 3:34 am by Guest Blogger
But, still, it’s hard to celebrate a Constitution that explicitly guaranteed the return of fugitive slaves to their masters, protected the international slave trade for 20 years, and enhanced the South’s national political representation to reflect its slaveholding. [read post]
22 Jul 2019, 12:22 pm by Daniel Richman
After an ugly 1859 episode in which he treacherously assisted in the kidnapping of alleged “fugitive slaves” in Lawrence, Kansas, Whitley did yeoman service as a spy in 1862-1863 for Union commander Gen. [read post]
12 Jul 2023, 8:53 am by Jennifer González
Her interests include all things cooking and historical fiction. [read post]
20 Apr 2012, 7:34 am by Randy Barnett
 Now, sir, it is not denied that this relation of servitude between the former negro slave and his master was actually severed by this amendment. [read post]
7 Feb 2011, 2:56 pm by Mohammad Fadel
After all this struggle, the “respected” tyrant emerged and gave a ridiculous speech, announcing the dismissal of ministers who lack any importance or independence, who do nothing but carry out the commands of their master. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  There’s the incendiary 1829 tract of David Walker, declaring, like an abolitionist Patrick Henry: “[H]ad I not rather die . . . than to be a slave to any tyrant[?] [read post]
12 Jan 2018, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The result was The Drinking Gourd, a television play that focused on the effects that slavery had on the families of the slave master and the poor whites as well as the slaves. [read post]
19 May 2018, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
The result was The Drinking Gourd, a television play that focused on the effects that slavery had on the families of the slave master and the poor whites as well as the slaves. [read post]
9 Dec 2022, 12:30 pm by John Ross
New York man runs a secret society that is all women (other than him), structured as a pyramid of "masters" and "slaves"—the latter of which give up blackmail material on themselves to join. [read post]
3 Jul 2012, 6:18 am by Chris Castle
Attorney Rudolf Guliani put Michael Milken (another Master of the Universe) in Master of the Universe Prison. [read post]
15 Sep 2014, 3:03 pm by Steve Lubet
”  After all, the slaves had not heeded Brown’s call to join the rebellion, thus proving that they were happy in their lives. [read post]
12 May 2008, 11:08 am
          Cobb published a book on the Law of Slavery, arguing that it as good for both master and slave. [read post]