slave-trade

One cannot ignore the extraordinary fact that a world campaign beginning with the slave-trade and ending with the refusal to capitalize the word “Negro,” leading through a passionate defense of slavery by attributing every bestiality to blacks and finally culminating in the evident modern profit which lies in degrading blacks,—all this has unconsciously trained millions of honest, modern men into the belief that black folk are sub-human.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Regarding the culpability of just about European nation/race for the slave-trade, obviously yes, you're right.

A restricted homecoming? O'Neill 2008

Meanwhile, in one of the African sources of my slave-trade family heritage, Madagascar's president has just ceded power to the military, who are said to back his rival, the mayor of the capital, Antananarivo.

Marian's Blog: Marian 2009

And even the little we gave e.g. in the 1960s was done in such a way that further destroyed the black families previously disrupted by slave-trade.

Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President. Ann Althouse 2009

She carries a family name of British origin and yet, so uncharacteristically, the BBC had not even the slightest desire to acknowledge her, let alone brag about her, on the basis of UK ties to this U.S. presidential candidate and her almost certain British slave-trade family history.

Elections U.S. Marian 2009

Meanwhile, in one of the African sources of my slave-trade family heritage, Madagascar's president has just ceded power to the military, who are said to back his rival, the mayor of the capital, Antananarivo.

Marian's Blog Marian 2009

Instead, these expressively illustrated black-and-white pages, with almost no text (what text there is is lifted from Turner's confession before he went to his execution) are as savage a tale of the slave-trade as you could hope to find.

Boing Boing 2007

And even the little we gave e.g. in the 1960s was done in such a way that further destroyed the black families previously disrupted by slave-trade.

Today is the 200th birthday of our greatest President. Ann Althouse 2009

There it was proposed that Africans would only be saved from the slave-trade if they were woken up to the possibilities of selling their own produce; otherwise chiefs would continue to barbarically sell their own kind to pay for the beads, cloth, guns and trinkets they coveted.

David Livingstone’s Vision Revisited: Christianity, Commerce and Civilization in the 21st Century 2007

It may be that Dickinson is commenting on the slave-trade--turning our understanding of what constitutes civilization and savagery inside out.

Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009