The runagate or renegade slave travels the freedom train toward the mythic North and beyond (first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah).

As with all discoverings of the past this is an act that provides useful perspectives.

Mies' style, for all of its obvious modernity, is essentially rather classicizing […]

Engaged intellectuals were obliged to take a stand on the side of progress and History, whatever the occasional moral vicissitudes.