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...sold out days in advance, standees were thick in the aisles. From swank Striver's Row to the river slums, Harlem came downtown to welcome her, filled one-third of the house. Tall and good-looking, dark enough to need no makeup in the role of an Ethiopian slave, Jarboro revealed the husky voice of her race, rich in texture, not perfectly schooled. At the end of the aria "Ritorna vincitor" she was recalled three times, not by Negro cheers only...
...having survived his first passionate love-affair. Anthony went to Cuba to collect a long-standing debt to the firm. Havana suited him. and he fell in love again, but business once more tore him away, this time to Africa, where he spent long years as master of the slave-trading station of Gallegos. When he had amassed a tidy sum he sold out, went back to Europe to enjoy his wealth...
...been, wrote that she had a job for him in Berlin. When they arrived it turned out that she had no job, she simply wanted them to rent a room in her middle-aged love nest. Pinneberg pulled what wires came to hand and became a salesman in a slave-driving department store. Bunny luckily turned out to be a good manager. They left his shameless mother's flat, got a tiny apartment almost as cheap as it was inconvenient, counted every pfennig twice before they let go. But shortly after the baby was born Pinneberg was fired. They...
...your issue of May 9, you caption a reference to "Slave Virginia" as "Yankee Common Sense...
...Dred Scott, Missouri slave, sued for freedom on the ground that two years' residence with his master on free soil had made him a citizen. In 1857 the Supreme Court denied his plea, held the Missouri Compromise of 1820 unconstitutional. That decision stripped Congress of its power to pass on slavery in the territories, helped bring on the Civil...