THE race question in the South is at last beginning to be approached in a temper fairly free from partisan bias. But the institution which bequeathed us the race question still awaits dispassionate ...

The Long Song (Headline Review), aptly titled, is not for the fainthearted; it takes an intimate look at slavery, now universally acknowledged as evil. But Levy shows how degrading and depraved it ...

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Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property ...