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Stone-Faced But Humorous
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"GOD IS IN the detail," architect Mies van der Rohe declared.
But what he didn't mention is that God's builders-or at least the
ones who have spent the past 83 years constructing the Washington
National Cathedral-often have a sense of humor when it comes to
details.
If you're a doubting Thomas, just look carefully at the
stonework, wood carving, stained glass, needlework and wrought iron
throughout the Gothic-style cathedral, the completion of which is
being celebrated this weekend.
Since the cathedral's construction began in 1907, careful thought
and craftsmanship have gone into every ...
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Reviews).
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History
; ...supported more than 6000 slaves, it developed one of the more unusual slave societies in the history...marriages, often named slave children for themselves...usually bequeathed slaves to relatives, avoided breaking up slave families, sometimes...
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Masters, Slaves, and Subjects: The Culture of Power in the South Carolina Low Country, 1740-1790
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine
; ...premise that as a "Slave Society" the domination of slaves "was always the...their disposal, slave masters had to contend with slaves who were not the...Unfortunately, the slaves' cultural participation in colonial slave society was fraught...
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Slaves, Poor Whites, and the Underground Economy of the Rural Carolinas
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History
; ...to the so-called slave, internal, or informal...economy, studying slaves' independent activities...to organize their slave labor forces according...the gang system, slaves labored under close...rational nature of slave-poor white exchange...subversive character. Slaves and poor ...
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782. (Book Reviews).(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...households with multiple slaves increasingly owned entire slave families. Unlike...frequently characterized slave systems elsewhere. Nevertheless, slaves resisted. But...with black male slaves, and in which every one of seventy slave seamen captured...
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SLAVES TO CITY'S FORTUNES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
; ...is descended from slaves. He is the great-grandson of a slave from Barbados. Today...trafficking. City slave traders often owned...and America where slaves worked. Many of...and chains to keep slaves shackled surrounded...Businesses making rope for slave ships and machinery...
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Slaves, poor whites, and the underground economy of the rural Carolinas.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...to the so-called slave, internal, or informal...economy, studying slaves' independent activities...to organize their slave labor forces according...the gang system, slaves labored under close...rational nature of slave-poor white exchange...subversive character. Slaves and poor ...
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Slaves to History
Newspaper article from: Pittsburgh City Paper
; ...In close detail, Slave Ship chronicles not...horrific lot of the slaves, but also their...capitalism. It's the slave ship as factory...and into the slaves upon whose unpaid...the importation of slaves continued unchecked...become the hemispheric slave-based empire of...
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Slaves Helped Build White House
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Clyburn, D-S.C. Slaves were the largest locally...be carved out of two slave-owning states, Virginia...more than 60 years. Slaves worked as domestic servants...city became a thriving slave-trading center, and...voiced shock at witnessing slaves being led past the Capitol...
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Selling slave families down the river: property rights and the public auction.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Independent Review
; ...important consideration of slave ownership because slaves represented a highly valuable...labor systems. For the slave owner, slaves represent not only labor...labor is that managers of slave labor must prevent slaves from running away. Managers...
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Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616-1782
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
; ...was nonetheless a slave system. Surely one...and in this Bermuda slaves were particularly...sell their excess slaves. Bermuda's slaveholders...property. The Bermuda slave Mary Prince, writing...ed., The Classic Slave Narratives [1987...reminder that Bermuda slaves sold out of the ...
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