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  • D'you remember an African slave-ship, called the Balliol College, trading into the Dahomey coast?

    Watershed 2010

  • Flashman has suggested that Sullivan was killed by Charity Spring aboard the Balliol College slave-ship in 1848, during a fight with an American warship; presumably the mate was only badly wounded, and recovered to fall a victim to Moran twenty years later. [p. 300] 15.

    Watershed 2010

  • You need to be in a perfect fever of fear and rage, as I was when I threw de Gautet over the cliff in Germany in '48, or when I sicked on that poor lunatic steward to shoot John Charity Spring, M.A., on the slave-ship off the Cuba coast.

    Watershed 2010

  • I came from Africa in the slave-ship and went back to Africa with the champion-ship.

    Greg Hanlon: Only in America!: An Interview with Don King 2009

  • In Mumia's words, "This is the story of law learned, not in the ivory towers of multi-billion-dollar endowed universities, but in the bowels of the slave-ship, in the hidden, dank dungeons of America."

    OpEdNews - Diary: Prisonhouse of Nations: A Review of Mumia Abu-Jamal's 'Jailhouse Lawyers' 2009

  • The images here incorporate the viewer in several complex ways: the disturbingly individual, images of guns pointed directly at the viewer and the men left to drown among circling sharks, to the incredible panoramas depicting groups of men being betrayed by the bejewelled African tribal leader, the crammed hold of the slave-ship, an attempted revolt, and the arrival of the ship to an awaiting colony.

    For Those With Means « educating alice 2009

  • Indeed, the first African American encounter with Western medicine was the slave-ship quack, who would condemn sick passengers to the sharks.

    Gallup: Obama Catching Up To Hillary Again, But Still Hurt By Wright 2009

  • The images here incorporate the viewer in several complex ways: the disturbingly individual, images of guns pointed directly at the viewer and the men left to drown among circling sharks, to the incredible panoramas depicting groups of men being betrayed by the bejewelled African tribal leader, the crammed hold of the slave-ship, an attempted revolt, and the arrival of the ship to an awaiting colony.

    2009 November 13 « educating alice 2009

  • This ad reminds me of a slave-ship, and it's hard to imagine the same imagery did not come to mind for the savvy ad exec that created it.

    Jamie Court: Inside Intel Is There A "Slave-Ship" Agenda? 2008

  • His evil is also shot through with a solid dose of fear and cowardice, especially from his slave-ship past at one point, a breeze through the trees reminds him of the sound of "naked feet shuffling on the deck."

    12/27: The Man From the Alamo; California Ed Howard 2007

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