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		<title>Heinz exhibit highlights city’s role in slavery and abolition</title>
		<description>Discuss Heinz exhibit highlights city’s role in slavery and abolition</description>
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			<title>James Michener:  &quot;Caribbean&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In the same novel previously mentioned, Michener also highlights some interesting developments on the sometimes rocky relationships among the slave population. Snitching, for example. One scenario is that the field hands had planned a slave revolt among themselves to take place on a given sundown, thinking that these plans were "safe" among them. Not so. Apparently, as Michener develops it, a house servant, a "member of the family," (we all know how that goes, don't we?) got wind of the plan and naively instructed the young master of the house not to go out in the fields after a certain hour. The young slavemaster, her "baby," if you will, put two and two together, and the slave revolt was successfully put down. The unfortunate house servant, however, had put a bullseye to her back and didn't fare so well after the put down of the revolt. She was set upon one evening by a revenge party and was found the next morning with her throat having been cut.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title>James Michener:  &quot;Caribbean&quot;</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Sometime back I found myself mesmerized by another literary work by James Michener. I had read many of his works. Michener had a way of building a fiction built around nonfictional events. He told of the many ordeals of slave cargo in graphic detail. One is that, as the slave ships approached final ports of destination in the West Indies, the effluvia wafting from the bowels of the ships carrying their human cargo could assault the nostrils from as far away as two miles. Imagine that! He also points some interesting aspects of sexual appetites among the crew. He described how when lusts reached a crescendo within the loins of the sexually desperate crew not only did the hetereosexuals help themselves to their helpless captives but also the homosexuals. I couldn't help but wonder whether this unfortunate sexual event had something to do with the unease with homosexuality in black America?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>John West</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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