Turner, himself the son of a former slave-owner, wrote that in actual fact the liberated slaves ' " worst enemies " had been the Northern carpetbaggers of the Reconstruction era, who " promised each head of family forty acres of land and a mule if only he would vote right.

It manifests when it needs to in order to tempt people into war and destruction, in which case it takes the most effective shape ; a priest would see an avenging angel, a slave-owner a great overseer, etc.

Qur ' an ( 23: 5-6 )-".. who abstain from sex, except with those joined to them in the marriage bond, or ( the captives ) whom their right hands possess ..." This verse permits the slave-owner to have sex with his slaves.

After 28 years James had become a wealthy slave-owner and sugar planter.

A slave-owner himself, Lee is surprised by this revelation — he never thought Negroes capable of participating in government.

But, despite the fact that he was a slave-owner, his strong Unionism and opposition to the extension of slavery alienated the Texas legislature and other southern States.

Colonel William Byrd II ( 28 March 1674 – 26 August 1744 ) was a planter, slave-owner and author from Charles City County, Virginia.

" Although outright cruelty to slaves was considered a mark of bad character in Roman culture, there were few limits on the punishments an overseer or slave-owner could inflict.

Jimmy, the fifties ' pimp and sixties ' black power leader, is the seventies ' guerrilla ; Roche, the jaded white liberal, resembles in his wronged mood a slave-owner -- he is a kind of benign puppeteer ; and Jane, who uses the lingo of sympathy easily (" words that she might shed at any time, as easily as she had picked them up, and forget that she had ever spoken them ") -- Naipaul describes her best: " She was without memory.

Unlike Josiah Nott, the slave-owner from Alabama, Agassiz was never a supporter of slavery.

His father was an Exploring Surveyor in the United States Navy, and a slave-owner.

In 1750 William Brown, a slave-owner in Framingham, advertised for the return of a runaway slave named Crispus.

Assemblyman Bob L. Beers said that " A brothel owner is somebody who, when it gets down to the very essence, is nothing more than a slave-owner.

Pierre Victor, baron Malouet ( 11 February 1740 – 7 September 1814 ), a French slave-owner, conservative publicist and monarchist politician, who signed as an " Émigré " the Whitehall Accord.

Creole transmits this experience with greater purity than the urbane language of the slave-owner.

When South Carolina seceded In December 1860, Major Robert Anderson, a pro-slavery, former slave-owner from Kentucky, remained loyal to the Union.

Mrs. Stowe, let me hasten to say, attacked the possibilities of slavery with all the eloquence of genius ; but the same genius painted the portrait of the Southern slave-owner, and defended him.

Todd and the other residents of Tabor generally supported Brown until he ( Brown ) and his men in 1857 ‘ invaded ’ Missouri and forcibly freed about a dozen slaves, killing one slave-owner in the process.

`` What would you have done in Montero's moccasins??

As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.

An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

A few days ago, she would have thought such an expedition as this utterly ridiculous ; ;

His presence would have interfered with her duty.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

An inch lower and it would have knocked him out.

Black would have little trouble getting out, but it might delay him a few minutes.

Yet had he not visited the girl at Saw Buck he would never have been involved in this latest tangle.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

They would have to go west through the narrow river valley that separated Leyte from Samar and hope that it didn't close in before they returned.

I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.

Johnson never would have believed she had a son that age.

Their product had been endorsed by Good Housekeeping, the A.M.A., and the Veterinary Journal, among other repositories of higher wisdom, and before much longer if you didn't have a cake of their soap in the john, even your best friends would think you didn't bathe.

She'd driven around for a while, Joyce said, then, thinking Louis Thor would have calmed down by that time, she'd gone back to his home on Bryn Mawr Drive, parked in front, and walked toward the pool.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

It had been a mistake, but anything would have been a mistake, as it turned out.

Without money or property, what would you have had at Baton Rouge ''??

Now we peered anxiously for any speck of land in the Pacific, for this interminable bailing would have to stop soon.