An appeals court in Genoa ruled that a couple could not name their son Friday, because it recalled the native servant in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," a figure the judges said was "characterized by his role of subjection and inferiority".
Starting at 2 p.m. with "Chocolat," the story of a young girl's friendship with her family's native servant in West Africa in the 1950's, the series includes all four of Ms. Denis's later feature films as well as several other works rarely seen in the United States.
Jettel initially hates her new life and treats the natives like servants.
Writer lived in a large plantation-like suburban house called April Folly, & hired four natives as servants, all of whom had bilharzia, a parasitic disease transmitted by snails living in sluggish waters.
There are times when the Washington exhibition also seems to push too far; it begins by observing that Jefferson's Declaration of Independence "did not extend 'Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness' to African-Americans, Native Americans, indentured servants, or women".
Gayatri Devi, writer and academic A Mercy by Toni Morrison is a novel of the New World that takes on the bondage of slavery, yes – but also all the bondage at the root of our nation: indentured servants, Native Americans, women, children, and, most important, the mind.
It was a country of slaves, indentured servants, Native Americans, and women who were not allowed to vote.
South African expatriate Lynn Freed focused once again on her native ground in The Servants' Quarters.
They wore top hats and tails to festive events, built big houses with wide verandas and hired native Liberians as their servants.
Suggestions that civil servants "go native" after a long period working for a government and find it hard to adjust to a new administration and its different priorities were "completely wrong", he believed.
