She was part of the September 9, 1972 expedition that discovered and surveyed the historic final connection.

She next traveled to Greece, and surveyed the legendary ruins.

She led a team that surveyed the Huaura Valley and excavated at several sites, including the hilltop fort at Acaray.

She makes the argument that grouping all people of African descent together regardless of their unique ancestral circumstances would inevitably deny the lingering effects of slavery within the American community of slave descendents, in addition to denying black immigrants recognition of their own unique ancestral backgrounds.

She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism during slavery contributed to black women having the lowest status and worst conditions of any group in American society.

She argues that slavery allowed white society to stereotype white women as the pure goddess virgin and move black women to the seductive whore stereotype formerly placed on all women.

She, a woman, was resolved to win or die ; if the men wanted to live in slavery, that was their choice.

" She became a Methodist, and left to make her way traveling and preaching about the abolition of slavery.

She remained mistress of her maid, and might degrade her to slavery again for insolence, but could not sell her if she had borne her husband children.

She emphasised that although Mongkut had been a forward-looking ruler, he had desired to preserve customs such as prostration and sexual slavery which seemed unenlightened and degrading.

She said the book influenced Chulalongkorn's reform of slavery in Siam, a process he had begun in 1868, and which would end with its total abolition in 1915.

She argues against the institution of slavery yet, at least initially, feels repulsed by the slaves as individuals.

She was disappointed in what she had heard to be a ` promised land ,' particularly in the institution of slavery.

She had a total of six children of record born into slavery ; four survived to adulthood and were noted for their resemblance to Jefferson.

She spoke out for women's rights and against slavery at a time when women were discouraged and prevented from public speaking.

She assisted in establishing the Woman's National Loyal League to help pass the Thirteenth Amendment and thereby abolish slavery, after which she helped form the largest group of like-minded women's rights reformers, the politically-moderate American Woman Suffrage Association, which worked for decades at the state level in favor of women's right to vote.

She may have had an illegitimate half-sister ( date of birth unknown ), Ann Dandridge Costin, who was born into slavery ; her enslaved mother was African and Cherokee and her father was believed to be John Dandridge.

She ultimately marries a man called Monday and thereby unwittingly frees Tristran's mother, Lady Una, from slavery.

" She said the U. S. was fortunate to have a constitution authored by " very wise " men but pointed out that in the 1780s, no women were able to participate in the process and slavery still existed in the U. S.

She confronted the nation and its institutions, including a local Presbyterian Church and its minister, over slavery.

She wrote that his wife was a friend of Harriet Beecher Stowe, and had provided Stowe with the story of Eliza in Uncle Tom's Cabin fleeing slavery because Douglas ' great-great-aunt took care of Eliza and her infant after their escape.

She also supported the rights of African-Americans, referring to " this cancer of slavery ", and suggested that those who were interested in the Abolition movement follow the same reasoning when considering the rights of women: " As the friend of the Negro assumes that one man cannot by right hold another in bondage, so should the Friend of Woman assume that Man cannot by right lay even well-meant restrictions on Woman.

She had been born into slavery, purchased her freedom and that of her son, and become a successful businesswoman in Washington, DC.

She had continued her independent observations and greeted the war with dread, while supporting slavery and states ' rights.

She also wrote short stories exploring through fiction the complex issues of slavery.

She tried to improve their conditions and complained to her husband about slavery, and the mixed-race slave children attributed to King, Jr.

" She continued to be outspoken against the institution of slavery, and often donated money from her public readings to charitable causes.

She helped him with the dishes, then he brought more water in from the spring before it got dark.

She was carrying a quirt, and she started to raise it, then let it fall again and dangle from her wrist.

She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.

She had to move in some direction -- any direction that would take her away from this evil place.

She yanked away from him furiously.

She sat quietly, staring at me from the wide eyes.

She stood up, pulled the coat from her shoulders and started to slide it off, then let out a high-pitched scream and I let out a low-pitched, wobbling sound like a muffler blowing out.

She had jumped away from his shy touch like a cat confronted by a sidewinder.

She softly let herself into the bed, and took her regular side, away from the door, where she slept better because Keith was between her and the invader.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

She didn't turn away from the window.

She was from Prague.

She was ready to kill the beef, dress it out, and with vegetables from her garden was going to can soup, broth, hash, and stew against the winter.

She said, `` I notice the girl from across the street hasn't bothered to phone or visit ''.

She smoothed the covers on Scotty's bed and picked things up from the floor.

She soared over the new pastor like an avenging angel lest he stray from the path and not know all the truth and gossip of which she was chief repository.

She was told by the manservant who opened the door that his lordship was engaged on work from which he had left strict orders he was not to be disturbed.

She usually wore weeds, and a stranger watching her board a train might have guessed that Mr. Pastern was dead, but Mr. Pastern was far from dead.

She turned and walked stiffly into the parlor to the dainty-legged escritoire, warped and cracked now from fifty years in an atmosphere of sea spray.

She looked at the girl speculatively from eyes which had paled with the years ; ;

She was personally sloppy, and when she had colds would blow her nose in the same handkerchief all day and keep it, soaking wet, dangling from her waist, and when she gardened she would eat dinner with dirt on her calves.