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...vain attempt to rescue a fugitive slave he charged the Boston courthouse singlehanded, after one man had been killed and while bullets were still flying, thought so little of the act that he barely noted it in his diary. Of sure taste, he inspired Emerson, recognized Whitman, Thoreau, Melville and Lowell when they were unknown, made critical appraisals of them which still stand. Readers of his Journals will have no difficulty in seeing why Emerson and Hawthorne praised him so highly, are likely to feel it more puzzling that he has been neglected for so long...
When in need of more child workers than they have whelped themselves, tough Rumanian gypsies and hard-fisted peasants sometimes buy a "child slave" from professional kidnappers. Such a snatcher was feeble, wheezing Katinka Barbalate, 35, who was finally caught at lessy last week. Police nabbed her on a blanket charge of "kidnapping hundreds of children and selling them to gypsies and peasants...
...shrunk to sixth largest in the world, Angola has long been the Cinderella colony. What little Portuguese and private funds were available went to develop Mozambique, on the other side of Africa. Discovered in 1482, Angola came into prominence in the 19th Century when colonists built up a lucrative slave trade, exporting Angola's Bantu blacks to Brazil. When slavery was abolished in Brazil in 1830, colonists gradually turned to agriculture, began to produce coffee, sugar, maize, palm oil, sisal. Meanwhile, at home, Portugal was in a mess. With two exceptions, budgets were unbalanced for three-quarters...
ISAAC FRANKLIN, SLAVE TRADER AND PLANTER OF THE OLD SOUTH-Wendell Holmes Stephenson-Louisiana State University Press...
After the War of 1812, Isaac Franklin made a fortune of $750,000 as a slave trader, had the finest house in Tennessee, six big plantations in Louisiana, 600 slaves. This academic biography with its voluminous notes and appendix is interesting for its detailed account of slave trading as a business...