The term referred to the way that these so-called blacks deceived people into thinking they were white, and in so doing, could escape enslavement or crushing poverty and humiliation under segregation.
Coates said that, in his research for the book, he came across numerous references to water in relation to those forced into slavery, starting with the Middle Passage, when many jumped off ships to escape enslavement.
Some have looked at his long life covering the blackest period of German history, in which Europe narrowly escaped enslavement, and note that he never lost his contempt for democracy.
(His moniker is derived from cimarrones, the Spanish word for the African runaways who escaped enslavement). Cimafunk's magic is at its peak when he's singing live, and this month presents a pair of opportunities to see him: at National Sawdust, on April 17, and at Drom, on April 23.
Well, maybe more of a departure: the flight of the Jews from Egypt -- fleeing from home, escaping enslavement.
I cannot help thinking about something Frederick Douglass, who escaped enslavement and worked for the cause of liberation, once said when he described the dehumanizing effects of slavery not on those enslaved alone, but also on white slavers whose position to slavery corrupted their humanity.
He refuses to escape from enslavement when he has the opportunity and dies praying for his tormentors.
This programme, in which she interviewed – interrogated might be a better word – lots of women and their partners about the division of domestic labour, was little more than an exercise in judgmentalism, woven out of her flawed generalisation that 1950s housewives "were desperate to escape that enslavement".
The title Django Unchained alludes to the titles of the 1966 Corbucci film Django; Hercules Unchained, the American title for the 1959 Italian epic fantasy film Ercole e la regina di Lidia, about the mythical hero's escape from enslavement to a wicked master; and to Angel Unchained, the 1970 American biker film about a biker exacting revenge on a large group of rednecks.
Some black Seminoles fled to Mexico to escape re-enslavement.
It is unknown how many of these meetings were held, how much documentation of the speeches has survived and which attendees had only recently escaped from enslavement.
