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Imoinda, however, prefers execution to submission, but is sold to a white slave-trader instead by a character not in the original, the king's wicked minister, Orumba.
ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford
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Obama blithely, falsely and obnoxiously compared Israel's treatment of Palestinians to white American slave owners' treatment of their black slaves.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's Arabian dreams
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Several buildings in Odessa are adorned with reliefs of two young girls with nooses round their necks: they hanged themselves, legend has it, after falling prey to white-slave traders.
ECONOMIST: A hub of the modern slave trade
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"Hal" Rand, as he was known to most, was a white farmer and slave owner.
CNN: The story
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At the height of the civil-rights movement, many readers were furious at the idea of a white Southerner writing as a black slave rebel.
ECONOMIST: William Styron
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Some of the earliest works, like those of Joshua Johnston, a freed slave born in 1765, depict white subjects almost exclusively.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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When will Forbes be publishing the latest from a columnist endorsing slavery (what white guy wouldn't like a nice black slave rather than a paid secretary to do his tedious officework.) Then you can have a black businessman rebut his point.
FORBES: Magazine Article
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Some of these same folks, on the other hand, tell me they were psyched about seeing a movie, however "incorrect" on several levels, in which a black ex-slave secures freedom for his wife, kills every white man who stands in his way -- and gets away with it.
CNN: Why 'Django Unchained' stirs race debate
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For a slave to lift his hand "against the sacred temple of a white man's body, " even in self-defense, was an act of rebellion.
NPR: A Radical History of the Underground Railroad
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The play darkens, naturally, for the Surinam act, but equally naturally it becomes predictable: the chain gangs, the brutal punishments, the odious English slave owners, though Mr Bandele keeps Behn's one good white, the Governor's agent Mr Trefry, to balance Orumba.
ECONOMIST: Theatre at Stratford