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- Title: Students view the "Mechanical Slave" at work
- Description: Students view the "Mechanical slave", mechanical arms that can handle radioactive material, at work.
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- Description: Roach on the steamboat S. S. Prentiss. Freight to be shipped down the Yazoo River includes slaves, tools, and general supplies.
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- Description: Appraisal of the personal estate of James Ricks filed in Probate Court in Calhoun County, Arkansas. Property listed includes 14 slaves, livestock, farm equipment, and tools.
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- Text: ... the Estate of James Ricks as heir or Legatee, and that we will according to the best of our abilities View and appraise the Slaves and other personal property to us produced Sworn & Subscribed before me this 17th day of January AD 1860 So help us God William Wood James Dickinson Jennis...
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- Description: Letter describing the recent debate over the reorganization of Kansas, the Fugitive Slave Law, and a vote on the unconstitutionality of the Compromise of 1850.
- Text: ...Aug: in which he charges that Mr. Wade & others with having voted for a fugitive slave law in Kansas & Nebraska. Mr. Wade owned it --- like a man & Giddings squirmed. This was in the 24th Sec: of McDunn’s bill for the reorganization of Kansas --- as quoted & acknowledged ...
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- Description: New York Times article about President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, and his possible involvement in the deportation of 488 Yugoslav civilians to slave labor camps in 1942.
- Text: ...lists in the his on Aug. 8, 1945, defined "ill-treat- tory of World War II had "looked at ment or deportation to slave labor the military practices, functions or any other purpose of civilian and responsibilities" of Waldheim population of or in occupied terri- and that &qu...
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- Description: C., d. 11 Nov. 1850 in Wilcox, Co., Alabama). Inventory of property includes 41 slaves, livestock, equipment, tools, furnishings, and other effects.
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- Title: Inventory of slaves on the Jeffries Plantation, ca. 1851
- Description: ...roperty possibly drawn up as part of the settlement of the estate related to the Jeffries Plantation. Inventory lists eighty slaves by first name arranged by families. Information regarding their ages, years of birth or death, and in some cases remarks as to their household status or health...
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- Text: Slaves are slaves, but slaves are human. Slaves are people. Slaves have feelings. Slaves must not be used as a commodity, as so much chattel. As he brooded in the isolation of the desolate wilderness, I wonder if he churned inwardly.
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- Text: ...Duds which was to have been scn " \~hey can only turn. round and round :i.n riieanin5less drudeery•M ••they are slaves , When e11vy !) bitterness and jt;?alousy .sou:r;th1~1.r joys and darken the b:riehtness of their contentment--they are slaves to theriselves nncJ. sh...
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- Description: The letter concerns the management of the properties, sale of livestock, and the behavior of one of the slaves.
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- Text: ...Once again, the institution of slavery was undercut by the Gospel because masters and slaves were alike called to respond to every human being as a human being. A slave in the early centuries was a thing, not a person, and masters were given counsel as well as the slaves, ...
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- Text: ...In those days Aunt Jemima didn’t look like the lady you see on the box today. She was a slave woman, and a demonstrator was expected to act and talk like a slave woman, using a kind of broken patois. Jemima’s do-rag was replaced by a plaid headband. Eventually the headdress was...
