Article: Arming the Slaves: From Classical Times to the Modern Age.(Book review)

Article: Conservatism and the challenge of the "Modern ...
Modern Age;  March 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ...This issue of Modern Age begins with an intense ... segregation of the freed slaves and their descendants ... in successive issues of Modern Age, Professor Hodgson ... however, the goal of Modern Age to provide a forum for ...

Article: An island in the sun enters the modern age. ...
U.S. News & World Report;  July 21, 1986 ;     700+ words ... ... the sun enters the modern age For many of her 84 ... road laid out by slaves before the Civil ... patois handed down by slave ancestors. Completion ... blood.' Others say slaves' blend of African ... from Savannah's slave market. Rustic no ...

Article: Bursting Into the Modern Age
The Washington Post;  June 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... regeneration produced high flyers like Houdini and Nat Love, a former slave from Tennessee who earned the nickname Deadwood Dick as a rodeo ... violence, war and empire. White mobs subjected newly freed slaves to the ritual violence of lynching. In 1890, federal troops ...

Article: Winning the fight: eradicating slavery in the modern ...
Harvard International Review;  March 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... economically exploited, and paid nothing, just after his tenth birthday, Ibrahim was a slave. Even though 2008 was the 200th anniversary year of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States, slavery is still found elsewhere and has turned up ...

Article: An Invitation to the Modern Age; Black Enclave in ...
The Washington Post;  August 29, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... the project is likely to bring an end to a community that began more than 150 years ago, when a plantation owner gave a freed slave the deed to a 146-acre plot. Known as Conklin to longtime residents, it is one of a few surviving black communities in Loudoun ...

Article: Southern Gothic; A ghost abandoned in the 19th century finds her ...
The Washington Post;  July 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... other women who lived in this house over the decades: Jacques's second wife, Laura; his daughter, Maddie; and a freed slave named Omah, who becomes his partner in piracy. All of these women battle life on the Mississippi: Fires and earthquakes and ...

Article: Slaves of slaves.
The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan);  November 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... into two: the rulers and the slaves. The animals smiled. They ... The greatest tragedy of the modern age is that the rulers of most ... White rulers and the Black slaves. Lincoln un-caged the Blacks. The slaves owners were furious. Lincoln ...