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...story is told that before the Civil War, a Negro slave won his freedom and that of his family by foretelling the season for heavy freshets which destroyed all cotton and corn crops along the river, by observing the way certain species of wasps known as dirt-doubers built their nests under the river banks in the early spring...
...longer be called Negroes, but Browns, is the thesis of a study published last week by President Edwin Rogers Embree of the Julius Rosenwald Fund.* From 1619 when John Smith bought "twenty Negars" and thus introduced slavery to Anglo-Saxon America, until 1808 when the U. S. formally forbade slave importations, the Negroes came from diverse African stocks. From the beginning, the African races in America married among themselves and with Indians, and practically from the beginning acquired white blood. Comments Mr. Embree: "No special odium was attached to the begetting of mulatto children in slave days. It was regarded...
...performances of Heaven Bound, Nellie Davis plays the part of the Wayward Girl. The other actors are members of the Big Bethel, choir supplemented, outside Atlanta, by singers from other colored churches. St. Peter is Henry Mathews, a onetime slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action...
...Ernest Thompson Seton, literary naturalist, found a Harris's sparrow nest containing several fledglings near Great Slave Lake. The find was important because it proved that the bird builds a grass nest on the ground. But what were the eggs like? The Pennsylvanians and Canadians, in friendly competition last month, were trying to find...
...wife, worn out in his service, Brodie treated like a hated slave. Even when she collapsed from hopelessly advanced cancer he sneered at her for a softy. His old hag of a mother, who lived only for food, he pleasured in plaguing; once got her drunk for a joke, yelled with delight when she broke her only means of communication with life, her false teeth. Brodie forbade his eldest daughter Mary to keep company with a decent young Irishman; when the first throes of child-birth showed she had disobeyed him he literally kicked her out of the house into...