Acting now generally beats waiting.They concentrated mostly on late 19th Century and early 20th Centuryartists such as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Robert Henri,Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn and George Bellows.The desire and, eventually, the need of West Africans to trade with Europeans in order to gain access to their weapons and other prized goods escalated their involvement in the slave trade to such an extent that they could no longer draw on the reserve of slaves that they traditionally had in their societies.You could instead keep the corn and hope no one attackedyour field, but over time it may have come to you thathiring a mercenary, or owning some arrowheads, wouldincrease the amount of corn you actually kept for more thana few days.You taught it to your children.Along with many rural Midwesterners of his generation, Ford hated industrial combinations and Eastern financial power.