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20 May 2022, 5:50 am
He possessed all the elements, except for one — nerve.' Mr. [read post]
18 May 2022, 1:01 am
Stewart focuses on how George Washington became a “master politician,” and how this skill helped him navigate the very treacherous shoals of the early years of the American Republic. [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]
4 Apr 2022, 8:24 pm
Being an era of slave labor and short lifespans, it’s possible that slave masters simply did not care about the health of lowly miners. [read post]
18 Mar 2022, 6:30 am
Slave masters sent petitions to elected officials, as did settlers who sought forceful action against Indian nations and white citizens who demanded restrictions on the rights of religious or racial minorities. [read post]
30 Jan 2022, 3:55 am
Taking care of guests in the house is important, although this strikes me as ridiculously disingenuous, given that the new more progressive approach to restaurant staff is that they should be expected to “wait like slaves on their masters. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 2:07 am
Avoid exclusionary words that lend themselves to stereotypes (i.e., veterans and their widows, master/slave in the IT realm, handicap, native English speaker).Emphasize job responsibilities rather than requirements. [read post]
12 Jan 2022, 2:07 am
Avoid exclusionary words that lend themselves to stereotypes (i.e., veterans and their widows, master/slave in the IT realm, handicap, native English speaker).Emphasize job responsibilities rather than requirements. [read post]
17 Dec 2021, 10:15 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]
18 Nov 2021, 11:30 am
At least some slaves went free because their former masters, faced with considerable northern opposition to their claim of human property, either opted for settlements or simply abandoned the chase. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 3:31 pm
Dictionaries cited in the Heller case—Thomas Sheridan (1796), Samuel Johnson (1773), and Noah Webster (1828, the first dictionary of American English)—all defined "bear" as to "carry" or "wear. [read post]
22 Sep 2021, 11:47 am
Adams, formerly of Ware County, Georgia and now of Duval County, Florida, all of the above-named property, the said slaves, the future increase of the slaves, all the cattle, all the hogs, et cetera, on the following conditions. [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]
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]
6 Sep 2021, 9:30 pm
Participation in the workshop is open to all interested scholars, junior and senior alike. [read post]
25 Aug 2021, 6:06 am
Having the qualities of a master; powerful and able to control others; commanding, vigorous in rule....If a politician is the master, we the people are the slaves. [read post]
7 Aug 2021, 5:19 am
You are not a slave of fate, but the master of your own. [read post]
4 Jul 2021, 8:00 am
No oppressed, people will fight, and endure, as our fathers did, without the promise of something better, than a mere change of masters. [read post]
21 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
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]
19 Jun 2021, 6:30 am
Douglass believed that, even if ratified, the Thirteenth Amendment was unequal to the task of liberating blacks: “I am for the ‘immediate, unconditional and universal’ enfranchisement of the black man in every State in the Union . . . if he is not the slave of the individual master, he is the slave of society, and holds his liberty as a privilege, not as a right” (Vol. 1, 522). [read post]
