| 单词 | abolitionist |
| 例句 | Northern abolitionists like Ralph Waldo Emerson made Brown a martyr, and Southern loyalists got up in arms, quite literally, at the idea that this might be the start of a trend. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Other abolitionists at Peterboro begged the sisters to lower their profile, fearful that the controversy around women’s rights would detract from the main cause, ending slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Valentine’s kitchen table started the culture of debate on the farm, when Valentine and his friends—and later, visiting scholars and noted abolitionists—stayed up past midnight arguing over the colored question. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As the group entered the man’s property, a horn was sounded, signaling neighboring black and white abolitionists to converge on the farm armed with guns, pitchforks, and other weapons. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I ended up being a abolitionist and Cooter was a slave. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z At a follow-up meeting in Boston a few weeks later, the women’s rights advocates were distraught to learn that many abolitionists planned to focus only on winning the vote for black men. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z A prominent abolitionist stopped for a day en route to Chicago and stayed for a week. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z When the Joneses reached Chicago, they befriended a group of abolitionists, black and white, working together as “conductors,” assisting slaves to freedom on the hidden tracks of the Underground Railroad. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z African American abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass had heard enough. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The abolitionists didn’t think that position went far enough; they favored full and immediate emancipation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In England, abolitionists spoke up for Africans, but kings and lords still ruled. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The order left both sides unhappy: Northern abolitionists were dissatisfied because the Emancipation Proclamation did not outlaw slavery everywhere; Southern slaveholders were enraged because it freed millions of slaves living in their states. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The children decided we were gonna play abolitionists and slavers when we got to the beach and were arguing ’bout which one each of us would be. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z When the English looked at the sugar they used every day Clarkson and the other abolitionists made them see the blood of the slaves who had created it. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Martin kept abolitionist newspapers and pamphlets in the nook. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In 1884, two years after his first wife died, abolitionist and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass married a white woman, Helen Pitts. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z There was less meddling from the lawmakers and abolitionists down south, the planters saw to that. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The abolitionists were brilliant at using advertising and marketing to turn public opinion against slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not the woman,” she wrote to abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z This coin celebrates the first accomplishment of the abolitionists: ending the English slave trade in 1807. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They’d be halfway through New Jersey before the abolitionists had even gotten out of bed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “We needed no further education to make us earnest abolitionists,” she wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But then Cooter and n’em ran off behind a bluff and he hollered back, “Help! Is there any abolitionist ’round? Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The more their abolitionist friends challenged their positions, the more unyielding they became in their opinions about women’s rights. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z These pamphlets were widely read by abolitionists in the North, but they were confiscated and burned in the South. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Another abolitionist criticized Anthony for taking a position on the issue of divorce. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At meetings of the Female Society of Birmingham, women gathered in sewing circles to make bags decorated with abolitionist images, such as the one below. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Royal had read of the man’s exploits in the newspaper—lawyer, abolitionist crusader, bane of slavers and those who did their dirty work. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I remembered all the stories we’d heard in classes about abolitionists and how they’d risk their lives for people who were just like these folks. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Whereas in England even abolitionists portrayed humble slaves on their knees pleading for freedom, in this coin designed for use in Africa, the English and the African are shown as nearly equal. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Angelina wrote a series of letters about women’s role in society that were published in the Liberator, an abolitionist newspaper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z But even as the abolitionists spoke up for the rights of Africans, Parliament was finally seriously considering giving more English people the right to vote. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z By the time the Haitian plantation owners and overseers reached New Orleans, abolitionists were pressing to end the African slave trade. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Throughout most of our nation’s history—from the days of the abolitionist movement through the Civil Rights Movement—racial justice advocacy has generally revolved around grassroots organizing and the strategic mobilization of public opinion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Less than two weeks after the gathering—on August 2, 1848—a second women’s rights convention, organized by Amy Post, a prominent Quaker abolitionist, took place at the Unitarian church in Rochester, New York. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z This was a turning point in his life: Henry told Elizabeth that it was then that he became a dedicated abolitionist, who brought the topic of slavery up in almost every discussion. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And more recent events, like abolitionist efforts and the many revolts against slavery in the United States. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a scathing criticism for a man who had just traveled three thousand miles to attend an abolitionist convention. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z England now had no excuse; the abolitionists would force their countrymen to face the question: Was England a nation built on Christian beliefs or on treating people as property? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z After graduation, she became a paid lecturer in the abolitionist movement. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z His many work trips during Martin’s childhood were in fact abolitionist missions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The abolitionist wing of the Methodists circulated his pamphlets on Sunday morning and London periodicals published his arguments without rebuttal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z While many abolitionist groups favored a gradual approach to ending slavery, the women of Birmingham read and discussed Elizabeth Heyrick’s argument that all slaves must be freed at once. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z While she was in London, Stanton visited with Angelina and Sarah Grimké, her abolitionist friends from New York, but she was most impressed by Lucretia Mott and the work she did as an activist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Why, my dear brothers can you not see the deep laid scheme of the clergy against us as lecturers?” she wrote in a letter to two abolitionist leaders. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The fury of the abolitionists and the Copperheads was now taken over by the deserters. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Triumphant abolitionist sits down to write, “Goodbye to the Apostrophe: we’re not missing you a bit!” and finds that he can’t. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Cousin Gerrit warned Elizabeth that her father would never consent to her marrying an abolitionist. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “It can be a bit dense. But I’m surprised you didn’t learn he was a passionate abolitionist, Shayla.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z People who didn’t approve of Stone’s abolitionist message sometimes threw trash at her as she spoke. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Many were college-educated and the descendants of Quakers, abolitionists, and other social reformers. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “This is the biggest lot of abolitionist trash I ever saw.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Harriet,” Smith said, “I have brought all my young cousins to see you. I want you to make good abolitionists of them by telling them the history of your life.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z For years, Anthony had been able to publish notices of women’s rights meetings in the Anti-Slavery Standard, an abolitionist newspaper, at a discount. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Lander traveled with one of the new abolitionist societies in New York, on a speaking tour of New England; they kept him busy. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Yet when his classmates put their blades to a colored cadaver, they did more for the cause of colored advancement than the most high-minded abolitionist. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Like many other abolitionists, both she and Anthony considered President Lincoln too cautious in his approach to slavery. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Mary remembered an abolitionist assuring stowaways, “‘Mrs. Jones will take good care of you to-day,’ and of course I said ‘Yes.’ A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The efforts of the Joneses and their abolitionist friends had borne fruit. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “It was a pretty radical belief for his time. That type of thinking wasn’t popular or well respected by many people back then. Emerson had to be fairly brave to be an abolitionist.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z More than fifty years had passed since blacks around the country joined John Jones and his abolitionist friends in celebrating the end of slavery. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z That worst sort, an abolitionist with a printing press. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z By the 1790s, the English abolitionists were losing popularity, momentum, and hope. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Many abolitionists wanted to free the slaves but didn’t want black people living nearby. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was the kind of thing that would make you ’shamed the next time you ran into a real angel or a real abolitionist. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z Their mother didn’t approve of heathens or abolitionists, and since she considered their Quaker neighbors a bit of both, she forbade the children to have anything to do with the Stevenses. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Her true love is an abolitionist who fights for the freedom of slaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Tensions between slaveholders and abolitionists kept growing, and by mid-January 1861, five slaveholding states—South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, and Georgia—had seceded from the United States. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He was an avid abolitionist, who helped Frederick Douglass escape from federal marshals in 1859. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z He had never been active in abolitionist circles up north but observing the monstrous system firsthand gave him thoughts he did not recognize. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Several days after the convention began, prominent abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison arrived. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The abolitionists were a tiny, beleaguered minority; most Northerners shared the general conviction of black racial inferiority. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z Although race is a dominant and charged theme in hip hop music, treading crudely on African-American abolitionists and civil rights figures is still seen as taboo. Def Jam's Simmons apologizes for Harriet Tubman sex parody 2013-08-15T20:08:53Z Looking at the bill design, I’m reminded of a photograph of Tubman that was discovered, earlier this year, in an album that belonged to a nineteenth-century abolitionist. The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z The figure of the abolitionist was dismantled and taken from Maplewood Park, a site along the Underground Railroad where Douglass and Harriet Tubman helped shuttle slaves to freedom. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z Mansfield's adopted daughter, Dido Belle, was of mixed race; Mansfield, as Lord Chief Justice, had powerfully supported the abolitionist cause in his judgements. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z They are also Black American men living the future for which the famous orator and abolitionist fought, and they demonstrate an acute understanding of what it means to be his inheritors. HBO's "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" makes the 19th century agitator the star he always was 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z This 128-room hotel is across the street from the Aloft on a slightly dilapidated block, once home to abolitionists, that’s becoming a hotel row for bigger names like Indigo. Next Stop: Beds in Brooklyn: Inside 6 Hotels 2012-11-04T03:30:02Z Pictures of slaves did prove marketable among aristocrats and abolitionists in England and on the Continent. Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z So the “obnoxious and disliked” John Adams, as played by Crystal Lucas-Perry, who is Black, is not just an abolitionist on principle but in essence. Review: ‘1776,’ When All Men, and Only Men, Were Created Equal 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, her son sat upstairs in a writing class for older children about the life of abolitionist and onetime slave Frederick Douglass. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z In exchange for tattoos of cotton flowers or abolitionist leaders, patrons recorded a video discussing the history behind their selections, which were shown in the waiting room. Artist Doreen Garner Uses Tattoos to Explore Black Bodies 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z White abolitionists, along with a few white businessmen and politicians, joined in, sometimes working with Black leaders and at other times driving ahead separately. The Twists and Turns of Black History 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z He farmed, became a preacher and emerged as a leading abolitionist and community leader. At Ontario Underground Railroad Sites, Farming and Liberty 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Historians concentrated more on interracial collaborations before the Civil War, like the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. Colored Conventions, a Rallying Point for Black Americans Before the Civil War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The book also includes a famous quotation from the abolitionist writer Frederick Douglass: “Power concedes nothing without a demand,” he said. Symone Sanders Bet on Biden, and Herself 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Illustration: Clifford Harper/Agraphia.co.uk In 1845, the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, born a slave and then still technically the chattel of a Maryland landowner, arrived in . TransAtlantic by Colum McCann – review 2013-06-01T07:30:01Z Renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass recalls in his 1845 slave narrative how witnessing the serial whippings of his Aunt Hester impacted him “with awful force.” A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Wyatt-Brown published books on many topics, including the abolitionist Lewis Tappan, and on the role of depression in the creative process of several generations of the Southern novelist Walker Percy’s family. Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Historian Who Studied Southern Conduct, Dies at 80 2012-11-15T04:58:25Z “It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive history of the abolitionist movement,” Ira Berlin wrote in the Book Review. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z In an 1802 pamphlet from Philadelphia, a Quaker abolitionist reminds himself to “inquire into the case of the black girl that was shot.” Antiques: A Restored Louisiana Plantation and Its Lifeblood 2013-07-25T18:56:22Z How the turning point came in the middle and later decades of the 1800s when abolitionists, missionaries, and liberal philanthropists began setting up churches and schools that would educate former slaves and their children. Bill Cosby is on the phone: “Wake up, man!” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z In Isaac Julien’s new installation, “Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass,” 10 screens hung at varying heights display scenes from the life of the former slave turned abolitionist. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Harriet Beecher Stowe, the American abolitionist and author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” lived in Cincinnati when she was just Harriet Beecher. From Chili to the Underground Railroad, Cincinnati on a Budget 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Northern abolitionists wielded the novel as a sword for their cause. Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point” depicts the horrors of slavery and helped raise funds for the American abolitionist movement. Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Outside of physically stepping up in moments of crisis, we will join our local cop-watchers or community defense organizations, or other abolitionist organizations like Critical Resistance and Common Justice. Who will keep us safe in a world without police? We will 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z Unlike at Harvard and Yale, abolitionists were generally not invited to speak on campus. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “I loved that we explored issues like the sugar boycott,” Clarke said, referring to a late-18th-century campaign by the abolitionist movement that encouraged people to eschew goods produced by slaves in the West Indies. ‘Sanditon,’ Unfinished No More 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z This was especially the case with three dolls made by abolitionists, who seem to have been motivated by a desire to encourage empathy for Black people who suffered the violence of enslavement. Picturing Black Childhood: An Artist’s Journey 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z It is also a reference to the crate in which the enslaved Henry “Box” Brown shipped himself to abolitionists in Philadelphia from Virginia in 1849. An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z The most vociferous indictments came from the abolitionist papers in the North, which declared “so bestial a union as this” yet another sign of how slavery had corrupted the Southern soul. ‘Inseparable’ Finds Pride, Indignity and Irony in the Lives of Siamese Twins Chang and Eng 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The next year, at commencement, a white student from South Carolina attacked a black abolitionist minister, Theodore Sedgwick Wright, shouting a racial slur. Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z According to our reviewer, Gordon S. Wood, Oakes has written, through this detailed chronology of the political struggle between Northern abolitionists and Southern slaveholders in Congress, a “very solid, carefully and rigorously argued book.” New in Paperback: ‘Let the Lord Sort Them’ and ‘The Five Wounds’ 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Despite early unity with abolitionists, upper-middle-class white women willing to sacrifice racial equality for gender equality is nothing new. In ‘The Woman’s Hour,’ the Battle Over the 19th Amendment Comes to Life 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Lincoln hated slavery as much as any abolitionist, but as an ambitious and sensitive politician in a radically democratic society he couldn’t ignore the feelings of the diverse constituents of Northern society. Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Oddly enough, some slave owners encouraged marriage among their slaves — partly to assuage criticism by abolitionists and partly to render their slaves more reluctant to run away. Jesus would back gay marriage 2012-09-16T12:00:00Z The women cover a broad range of time and professions, including writers, abolitionists and suffragists. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z The crowds had come to see Key’s case against the abolitionist movement. Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z In the days of slavery, Alton’s location on the border between North and South made it a frontier in the battle between slavery advocates and abolitionists. Strolling Old Halls and Streets With Ghosts of Civil War 2010-05-13T21:56:00Z More prominently, an effort to have the great abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass lie in state in the U.S. How We Remember the Civil War 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z After the war, Forten became a successful merchant and prominent abolitionist. This interactive museum outside Williamsburg, Va., brings the American Revolution to life 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z Despite the specter of the death penalty, abolitionists held their ground. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z Wickenden paraphrases the news item; she notes that even abolitionists who cherished Tubman’s message “conveyed Harriet’s words in dialect,” which she quotes sparingly. An Unlikely Alliance in Upstate N.Y. and the Fight for Black and Women’s Rights 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z On May 26, a mob of some seven thousand black and white abolitionists, led by a Unitarian minister, the Reverend Thomas Wentworth Higginson, stormed the courthouse attempting to free Burns. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z That, and a willingness to listen to abolitionists like Frederick Douglass, whose devotion to emancipation and equality for Black Americans, free or formerly enslaved, helped shift Lincoln's political fortunes and his views. "Abraham Lincoln" and "Lincoln's Dilemma" clarify a few things about uncomfortable history 2022-02-20T05:00:00Z “There are some people who come here knowing he wasn’t exactly an abolitionist,” she said. Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The two-year lecture tour to Ireland and Britain had been arranged to help promote the abolitionist cause abroad and to help Douglass — who had just published his autobiography — avoid recapture by his former owner. Books of The Times: Colum McCann’s ‘TransAtlantic’ Explores Ireland and U.S. 2013-06-27T20:27:10Z It emboldened the abolitionists in the North and made opposing countries like France and the UK bristle at the thought of supporting the pro-slavery forces of the Confederacy. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The first woman is Joan of Arc, in 18th place, and the first American woman is in 24th place: the abolitionist Harriet Tubman. They’re White, Male and on Their Pedestals, for the Time Being 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z Hollander, whose founder was an abolitionist and who commissioned the quilt displayed just outside the room. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z Like his father, Harlan was so averse to conflict that he criticized both the abolitionists and the cruelest of enslavers, while insisting that the question of slavery should be left up to the states. A Supreme Court Justice Who Moved From Defending Slavery to Championing Civil Rights 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z The abolitionist former slave encouraged the convention to include voting rights in its declaration, even though several of the convention’s organizers felt that asking for voting rights might be too outrageous. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z At Harvard, a new piece called "The Boston Abolitionists" about the abolitionist movement and the trial of a fugitive slave will be performed in May. Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays 2013-02-28T07:16:06Z The abolitionist movement didn’t take hold in London for more than a decade — and then it was inspired by anti-slavery opinions emerging from America. How the 1619 Project took over 2020 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Slaves seeking freedom, as well as abolitionists and people of principle—Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau—flee north to Canada, where Susan B. Anthony leads a successful drive for women’s suffrage. “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” a Faux Documentary That Skewers Real White Supremacy 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z These days it’s not easy to muster an army of abolitionists, even though American opposition to capital punishment — 37 percent against — hasn’t been this high since the early 1970s, according to Gallup. The priest, the exonerated death row inmate and their continued battle against the death penalty 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The leveraging of the songs by abolitionists inspired Douglass to think of them as "allies." Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z I argue that the planters really had a three-part war, not only from northern abolitionists and the enslaved themselves but poor white workers against the institution of slavery. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z But that doesn't mean that you're going to be an abolitionist. "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z In the earliest story, set in the South Pacific in 1850, an American lawyer is converted to the abolitionist cause after meeting a fugitive slave. Cloud Atlas – review 2013-02-24T00:06:09Z The program, so rich in well-staged re-enactments that it is more docudrama than documentary, traces the abolitionist movement across almost 40 tumultuous years, a period of colliding worldviews that makes our current polarization seem slight. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z The point was that Foster’s lack of empathy made him — and other white people like him — a dubious abolitionist. Review: Taylor Mac’s 24-Hour Concert Was One of the Great Experiences of My Life 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The producer of a new biopic of the celebrated abolitionist Harriet Tubman has said that Julia Roberts was originally tipped to star. 'No one will know the difference': studio wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z A committed abolitionist, Thoreau wrote his essay “Civil Disobedience” as a criticism of the American government and slavery, and urged his readers to resist by not paying taxes. Happy 200th birthday, Henry David Thoreau! 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Not far from the park, the modest Elizabeth Cady Stanton house offers a glimpse into the place where she and her husband Henry, a fervent abolitionist, lived for 15 years. Suffragette City: A timely visit to Seneca Falls, N.Y., birthplace of the 19th amendment 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Though Belle did marry after the death of her uncle, Asante has introduced a love story with a noble young law clerk and abolitionist. Asante says new Belle film was 'gift' 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Many fugitives in Gay’s notes were also mentioned in similar records, long known to scholars, kept by William Still, a black abolitionist in Philadelphia, suggesting a very real if loose coordination among locations. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z He became a national leader in the abolitionist movement in New York and Massachusetts after escaping bondage as a disguised sailor, according to the Library of Congress. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Some became paid servants, abolitionists, successful businessmen and even aristocrats. Here’s What to Know About ‘Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story’ 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z “It is the first abolitionist and interdenominational church established in a slaveholding county in Kentucky,” he said. A Music Festival Wedding with Two Grooms as the Main Event 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z So, while Harriet is talking to this intimate group of abolitionists, she’s also talking to the broader audience outside the television screen. Aisha Hinds on Playing Harriet Tubman in a Remarkable ‘Underground’ Episode 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Previous generations of Americans clashed even more drastically: slaveholders and abolitionists, segregationists and civil-rights marchers, unionists and employers. Obama and the Collapse of Our Common American Language 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z Look closely and you’ll detect that the patterns are made up of bodies packed into slave ships and the plant is cotton—Bailey, who died in 2011, based his images on eighteenth-century abolitionist diagrams. Finding Refuge at the Whitney 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The man who invented landscape architecture was many things before he settled on his final path at age 45 — a sailor, farmer, journalist and abolitionist. 'Genius of Place': the restless genius of Frederick Law Olmsted, America's first landscape architect 2011-06-22T19:04:05Z An exhibition of ambrotypes and daguerreotypes from the 1840s and 1850s featuring portraits of iconic feminists including Lucy Stone, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” author Harriet Beecher Stowe and abolitionist Lucretia Mott. The best exhibitions of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z But he sent his children to an abolitionist boarding school in Massachusetts and wrote them that he longed to leave “the Oppressive South.” Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z In 1844, the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator published “A New Version of the National Song,” with lyrics by a man named E. A. Atlee. Colin Kaepernick and the Radical Uses of “The Star-Spangled Banner” 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z She writes her autobiography and becomes a symbol for British abolitionists. BET’s ‘Book of Negroes’: Slavery story rushes past its best moments 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Harriet Tubman worked as a slave, spy and eventually an abolitionist. Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Reports differ on whether Barnum “bought” or “rented” her, but on tour he appeased skeptical abolitionists with a lie, claiming all proceeds from the spectacle would be used to buy her great-grandchildren’s freedom. A Huckster for the Ages 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z There was a lot of bombast in the air back then; grand-sounding but inflammatory writing and speechifying were in fashion, including among abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison. ‘Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation’ at Morgan Library 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z I’m in Lawrence, Kansas, historically an abolitionist stronghold, and my hometown. ‘Moulin Rouge!’ Was Their Ticket. Then 2020 Happened. 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z Wells’s protagonist, the Black abolitionist David Ruggles, helped to found the city’s Vigilance Committee to protect Black citizens from police officers acting on the Southerners’ behalf. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Frederick Douglass, an American abolitionist and orator, was born as an enslaved person in February 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z The society, which included both slave owners and abolitionists, was motivated by the racist belief that Black people could not be integrated into American society. Marking a Different Thanksgiving Tradition, From West Africa 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z In time, alarmed but emboldened Northern free blacks and their white abolitionist allies formed vigilance committees to ward off slavecatchers, while Northern legislatures began approving so-called personal liberty laws to shield the fugitives. How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z But Hamilton, he said, was an abolitionist by the standard of the founding period. ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They In Sync? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Zipp has uncovered details about Commeraw’s clients, including black church leaders and abolitionists, and tantalizing hints that the ceramist helped soldiers protect New York forts during the War of 1812. Antiques: Commeraw Pottery and a Siqueiros Mural 2011-10-13T20:38:56Z It barely mentions the Underground Railroad, whose conductors were both Black and white, and shortchanges the longtime abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, depicting him largely as a purveyor of the inevitable progress myth. A Landmark Reckoning With America’s Racial Past and Present 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z Trump’s ignorance of history was on full display with his misinformed comments about President Andrew Jackson and 19th-century abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 2 of 2 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z British star Cynthia Erivo, who is Oscar-nominated for her performance as abolitionist Harriet Tubman in “Harriet” but was snubbed by Britain’s Academy, declined an invitation to perform at Sunday’s award ceremony in protest. ‘Joker’ leads British Academy Awards race amid controversy 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z As an outspoken abolitionist, she had earned the enmity of her Confederate neighbors. Almost heaven, West Virginia: Driving country roads in search of America today 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The book’s first chapter opens with Ruggles returning to Manhattan by train from an abolitionist meeting in Pittsburgh and provoking his white fellow passengers to think about their complicity in Southern slavery. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z An 1857 abolitionist work relates the story of a slaveholding doctor who whipped one of his slaves on Sunday. The modern history of swearing: Where all the dirtiest words come from 2013-05-11T12:30:00Z As Harriet Tubman, Ms. Hinds delivers an hourlong speech about her character’s personal history and the future of the antislavery movement to an audience of white abolitionists. Aisha Hinds on Playing Harriet Tubman in a Remarkable ‘Underground’ Episode 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The ambition to inspire us to action, to foment what they call a modern abolitionist movement, informs every page of the book. Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide 2010-08-18T23:05:00Z But Hamilton the ardent lifelong abolitionist, she said, is “an idea of who we would like Hamilton to be.” ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They In Sync? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z Young Johns grew up to be a wildly successful businessman and, as the story goes, a committed abolitionist. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z The company also is adapting Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight about the celebrated abolitionist. Obamas' Netflix slate features period drama, family show about... 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z A trending online petition is calling for Greater Rochester International Airport to be renamed after African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Petition to rename Rochester airport after Frederick Douglass trends online 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z On a particularly picturesque corner of the property, the abolitionist Cassius Marcellus Clay fought a famous duel with Samuel Brown. The Grass Is Greener 2010-05-01T04:00:00Z On Nov. 1, 1850, the Liberator, the Boston anti-slavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, a radical white abolitionist, alerted local residents to the presence of “two prowling villains.” A history of sanctuary cities: How Black Americans protected fugitive slaves 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, an advocacy group, said the Hopper Gibbons house offered a valuable window into the role of Chelsea in the city’s abolitionist history. Addition to Landmark Is Disputed 2011-01-05T23:05:07Z As an abolitionist and crusader for women’s rights, Ms. Jacobs conducted relief missions for slaves who had fled behind Union lines in Virginia. Jean Fagan Yellin, Who Uncovered a Slavery Tale’s True Author, Dies at 92 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Before and during the Civil War he specialized in portraits of abolitionists and landscapes as exotic as Roman ruins and Kashmir glades. Antiques: Condemning Slavery With a Paintbrush 2011-07-14T21:51:43Z Which raises the obvious question: how did the abolitionists expect to get slavery abolished? Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert last night weighed in on the much buzzed-about news of famed abolitionist Harriet Tubman replacing “renowned Indian stabber” Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. Good riddance, Andrew Jackson: Stephen Colbert celebrates as “renowned Indian stabber” booted off the $20 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He researched Douglass’s life extensively and portrayed the abolitionist giving his famous speech of July 4, 1852: “The Hypocrisy of American Slavery.” What happened when D.C. chose a white artist to create the official Marion Barry statue 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The abolitionist movement of the next century also found its epicenter here. Boxer who fought Tsarnaev: “Wish I’d known he was evil” 2013-04-23T23:41:00Z Because a woman on stage was a "novelty" to audiences of the day, Stone was booked only as warm-up act for famous abolitionists like Wendell Phillips. A new book places Lucy Stone at forefront of women's suffrage 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z As in several recent stories — the movie “Harriet,” the series “Underground” — an abolitionist network abets Cora and Caesar’s escape. Review: ‘The Underground Railroad’ Weaves an Epic Vision 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z The Lyonses were Seneca Village property owners, educators and dedicated abolitionists, running a boardinghouse for black sailors that doubled as a stop on the Underground Railroad. Their Land Became Part of Central Park. They’re Coming Back in a Monument. 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z For more than four decades, Garrett assisted some 2,700 enslaved people on their journey to freedom, providing them with food, shelter, money and connections to other abolitionists. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z I think it's very easy for everyone to think that they would have just been an abolitionist. "I want people to be angry": William Jackson Harper on viewers' takeaway from "Underground Railroad" 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z He was an adamant abolitionist while at the same time making Sabrina practically his slave. How to Create the Perfect Wife by Wendy Moore – review 2013-01-04T22:55:08Z The city’s Public Design Commission said it had tabled the discussion of the design plan last January, after a group of preservationists and activists said they thought the plan should feature statuary of the abolitionists. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Reportedly, Spielberg first conceived the film around Lincoln's friendship with black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who – very regrettably – isn't in the finished version at all. Lincoln: more jaw-jaw than war-war. And no vampires 2013-01-23T14:26:46Z The scene was Boston, October 1843, when Garrison was scheduled to speak at an antislavery gathering featuring George Thompson, another prominent abolitionist. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z New York City is pushing forward with an artwork to celebrate the abolitionist movement that some detractors have said is too abstract in a city where so few monuments honor Black people with figurative sculptures. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” asked abolitionist Frederick Douglass, in his famous address in Rochester, New York, on July 4, 1852. I hate the Fourth of July 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z There, Alcott wrote “Little Women” at a desk her father, noted abolitionist and transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott, built for her. Six female writers’ homes you can tour, including the one where Alcott penned ‘Little Women’ 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The ranks of the Radicals and their allies featured blacks and whites, practical politicians and visionary abolitionists. The political battle after the Civil War 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z She introduced her friend Stowe to Bailey, and the anti-slavery National Era would become famous for printing Stowe’s abolitionist novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” The best-selling Washington writer you’ve never heard of 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z A large mural shows a photograph of the 19th century abolitionist Rabbi Max Lillienthal. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z "I am not a prison abolitionist, but I think the punishment should fit the crime," he said. Wayne Kramer: 'I was the white boy who played the wah-wah' 2012-10-28T14:46:03Z Ms. Thompson-Spires was inspired by James McCune Smith, a 19th-century abolitionist and doctor whose brief stories about various characters were published under the title “Heads of the Colored People, Done With a Whitewash Brush.” Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Disarming Humor in ‘Heads of the Colored People’ 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z There are people, like abolitionists whose names might not roll off everyone’s tongue, who were important in their time. From Du Bois to Dr. Dre: A New Bartlett’s Celebrates Black Quotations 2013-11-18T18:30:34Z After enduring the dangerous voyage he recounted in “Two Years Before the Mast,” during which he witnessed a cruel flogging on shipboard, he returned to Boston to become an early human rights lawyer and abolitionist. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z While some Jews stood with abolitionists, others were slaveholders. A New Showcase for the Story of Jews in the South 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z The opposite of a fugitive pamphleteer facing an audience of abolitionists, he refuses all scrutiny, offering even Chamoiseau, his ventriloquist, only “the immense testimony of his bones.” Fleeing a Caribbean Plantation Into a Mythic Wilderness 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Both of Henry’s smart and resourceful sisters, Helen and Sophia, influenced him — not least as informed and passionate abolitionists, encouraging his activism. This new biography of Henry David Thoreau is the masterpiece he deserves 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z Since he employed white and black woodworkers and owned a dozen slaves, he was unlikely to stir up abolitionist trouble or “any disturbance amongst the Blacks,” a lawyer friend wrote to the state assembly. Antiques: Search for de Soto in Southeast Georgia 2010-05-20T22:44:00Z Butler, a conservative Democrat until South Carolina seceded from the Union five months before, was no abolitionist. Enslaved, Terrorized, Disenfranchised: Black Americans Still Found Ways to Change America 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z The season finale introduced Harriet Tubman as a character, weeks after the Treasury Department announced that the black abolitionist leader would appear on the $20 bill. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z As a girl, she was taken to Philadelphia and raised by an abolitionist. The story of Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, America’s first black pop star 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Similar series on abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman followed within two years. SAM hosts rare reunion of Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’ 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z In February, a rowhouse in Downtown Brooklyn also received landmark status for its connection to the abolitionist movement of the 1800s. City Approves Landmarks Honoring Chinese Americans and Native Americans 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z In April, it was announced that abolitionist Tubman would replace slave-owning Andrew Jackson on the front of the US $20 bill. Unmaskings, burkinis and vegan cheese: the alternative ‘women of the year’ awards 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The images here are not exclusively contemporary — note a man resembling the abolitionist Frederick Douglass in the lower left corner — but they implicate current events. Kara Walker Traces Slavery’s Bitter Legacy with New Ways of Drawing 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z There are civil rights champions and abolitionists like Martin Luther King, Jr., Harriet Tubman and Harriet Beecher Stowe, alongside slave-owning presidents such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Trump's unhinged, tone-deaf list of "American heroes" is a fitting emblem of his presidency 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Even some passionate abolitionists predicted that Calhoun’s posthumous reputation would be “without that element of contempt and loathing which must mingle with the memory of his Northern imitators and tools.” John C. Calhoun: Protector of Minorities? 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Hamilton would not likely have been hired for such work, she argues, “if he were known amongst his peers as having only abolitionist leanings.” Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Dependent upon abolitionist charity for his family’s daily bread, Douglass nonetheless chafed under a stifling Garrisonian orthodoxy that required adherents to embrace pacifism and abstain from politics. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, abolitionist Frederick Douglass made it a point to become the era’s most-photographed man, in direct opposition to a culture drenched in racist images of minstrels and contented slaves. Perspective | As statues topple, movies are becoming monuments, and a way to create public memory 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z He was not an abolitionist and was only a friend to racially marginalized groups up to a point. CNN's "Lincoln" docuseries is a fascinating treasure trove for fans of the best Republican president 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z The other, living comfortably in Charlottesville, was immersed in her final work, a biography of the renegade abolitionists and women’s rights advocates Sarah and Angelina Grimké, despite a publisher having deemed them “minor figures.” The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z His work focused on vilifying President Abraham Lincoln, Union soldiers and northern abolitionists. Smithsonian opens Civil War art from North, South 2012-03-30T12:01:04Z One abolitionist told Bradford that Tubman "talked with God, and he talked with her every day of her life." Harriet Tubman: Biden revives plan to put a Black woman of faith on the $20 bill 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Textiles were so interwoven with the slavery system that they also posed an issue for abolitionists. Exhibition Review: ‘Homefront and Battlefield’ Looks at Civil War Quilts 2014-05-05T20:59:16Z Suddenly, a carriage pulled up and Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the abolitionist weekly the National Era, jumped out. The best-selling Washington writer you’ve never heard of 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z It was a center for slavery and the slave trade; it was also a hub for abolitionists, who argued that Congress should use its constitutionally mandated authority over the District to end slavery there. A Powerful New Framing of America’s First Civil Rights Movement 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The sculptor, Eugène Warburg, was a black abolitionist in New Orleans. Antiques: A Portraitist Considered the ?Titian of Louisiana? 2011-12-15T21:47:17Z “What I’m so pleased about is not only the representation of women abolitionists, but also the representation of African American photographers who are often undervalued and overlooked,” he added. Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z Portrayed by a trained performer, Tubman will meet children, answer their questions and demonstrate how a tiny woman — she was just five feet tall — became a towering hero of the abolitionist movement. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Despite that, it was also a huge win for abolitionists. 7 misconceptions about the Civil War 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z The African Brigade served under the leadership of Gen. Edward Augustus Wild, a white, one-armed, red-bearded abolitionist. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Defining image — the magic of identity — was central to the strategy of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave, writer and abolitionist leader. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Danielle Allen, author of “Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality,” says that soon after 1776 abolitionists were mentioning the Declaration in their fight against slavery. Declaration of Independence still inspires activists 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z From trailblazing abolitionists and scientists to artists, politicians, judges and civil rights leaders, there are numerous historical figures who have done their part to shape America into the country that it is today. Black history through the years: 10 famous figures in the US 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z He was an abolitionist protege of Wilberforce, chosen by him for the job, and he was appalled at what was happening. Wilberforce was complicit in slavery 2010-08-03T11:59:00Z Rounding out the acquisition are portraits of abolitionists and photographs related to the Underground Railroad, with special attention to the women — both Black and white — who worked to raise money for the operation. Smithsonian Acquires Rare Photographs From the First African American Studios 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z The latter knows lyricist Stephen Foster set the story of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, to a tune. West Point on Memorial Day: Race, one graduation photo, and the meaning of America 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The season also uses the approach of the war to build up its abolitionist Black characters, though their stories still feel peripheral among the show’s privileged white New Englanders. ‘Dickinson’ Is an Offbeat Literary Origin Story, Written in Fire 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Onion and an oafish abolitionist named Cook, who were dispatched to Harpers Ferry in advance, recruit a handful of locals to the cause, including several slaves of the prominent resident Col. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Unlike “Digital Barbarism,” Mark Helprin’s shrill 2009 attack on copyright abolitionists, these books are not the work of Luddites or technophobes. Arts & Leisure Preview: Reading and the Web: Texts Without Context 2010-03-17T23:19:00Z He scoffed at the accounts of violence as Radical propaganda, the lurid fabrications of abolitionist fanatics. The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z She was reluctant to write her memoir until Amy Post, an abolitionist from upstate New York, persuaded her. Jean Fagan Yellin, Who Uncovered a Slavery Tale’s True Author, Dies at 92 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Stowe, her family’s breadwinner, kept up a stream of publications after her abolitionist novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” became a best seller in the 1850s. Twain and Stowe Homes Being Renovated for Historical Accuracy 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z "The suffrage and abolitionist movement was black men and white and black women — the exact groups that weren't supposed to be together, for a century," she said, "because there were so many parallels." Gloria Steinem revs up memories and travels in 'My Life On the Road' memoir 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z This journey had unmistakable thematic parallels to that of Ms. Lee: Her subject was a descendant of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an abolitionist minister who was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Illinois in 1837. The Invisible Hand Behind Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z After 12 years, Solomon wins his release from slavery, thanks to the mediation of a Canadian abolitionist played by Pitt, and leaves Epps' plantation with a look of stunned disbelief in his eyes. '12 Years a Slave:' an American story unearthed by British filmmaker 2013-09-09T15:22:40Z Signs of rejuvenation are everywhere, from a park honoring abolitionists to new murals on old buildings. The Old Whaling Capital of New Bedford Looks Ahead 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Activist ambitions fully come into play in the final gallery, where we are urged to become “modern-day abolitionists.” Exhibition Review: An Unseen Evil Still Ensnaring Countless Souls 2010-10-08T22:54:00Z Still, I couldn’t help thinking back to the abolitionist Helper, who knew full well how slavery caused white people to suffer, but remained an unrepentant racist to the end. ‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The great actress Cicely Tyson, 91, riveted the audience with an excerpt from a memoir by the slave-born abolitionist Sojourner Truth. Review: Kathleen Battle Returns to the Met After 22 Years. It Was Worth the Wait. 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Also in the mix is the story of abolitionist Frederick Douglass and his Irish ties. D.C. area monuments honor the Irish and others with ties to Emerald Isle 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z The abolitionists, decades before the 13th Amendment ended slavery. Here's What Lawrence Lessig Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It was once home to Abigail Hopper Gibbons and her husband, James, who were prominent abolitionists. Appeals Court Backs Landmarks Commission on House Used for Underground Railroad 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z And American abolitionist photographers posed formerly enslaved people alongside mirrors. 4 Books That Reflect on Faces, Fragments and Torments 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z The women include writers, abolitionists and suffragists from a broad range of time periods. Spare Times Listings for March 13-19 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Bolden skillfully follows Douglass as he finds his voice as a speaker, writer and newspaper publisher who breaks away, during the 1840s, from the pacifist secessionism of his abolitionist mentors. Review | A celebration of that famous pink hat and other best books for young readers 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z The video’s title is a quote from the abolitionist and former slave Sojourner Truth. Making Art When ‘Lockdown’ Means Prison 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Foner agrees with the abolitionist senator Charles Sumner that the Reconstruction amendments were “sleeping giants,” and notes that they provided the foundation for the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. What Reconstruction-Era Laws Can Teach Our Democracy 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z That’s wishful thinking, alas, which only incites crusading abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe to bristle, “It is not all right! No matter what date it is!” 'Tom,' a new take on Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic, at Will Geer's Theatricum Botanicum 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z And most of those opposed say, what about the abolitionists? Princeton Digs Deep Into Its Fraught Racial History 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But conversation, whether between the early abolitionists, a group of fed-up drag queens at the Stonewall Inn or online fans of Louis C.K., is where change begins. Fresh spate of sexism, violence ominously familiar 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z After helping to survey the District of Columbia, Banneker compiled his first almanac, replacing Wheatley’s “Poems” as abolitionists’ finest showpiece of black capability. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Like her father, Sarah is an abolitionist, but instead of guns, she wields a paintbrush to further the cause. In ‘The Mapmaker’s Children,’ John Brown’s daughter gets her due 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z This, Hussman said, failed to reflect the contributions of abolitionists and others who sought emancipation and equality throughout American history. One of the voices objecting to Nikole Hannah-Jones’s hiring at UNC: A newspaper baron — and major donor 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Victor — who excels at his work and has captured more than 200 people — infiltrates an abolitionist movement called the Underground Airlines, and is forced to confront his own complicity. In His New Novel, Ben Winters Dares to Mix Slavery and Sci-Fi 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z The Sidney Gay collection is full of fascinating information, including revealing letters to and from Gay's wife Elizabeth Neall Gay who corresponded with British abolitionists at this same time. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z As its president in the 1920s, she helped begin the effort to preserve the home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. Who helped women get the vote? Meet three important suffragists. 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Somewhere in there is also the spirit of Sarah Parker Remond, an African-American abolitionist and suffragist campaigner to whom, in recent years, a plaque was dedicated near the entrance. Read Your Way Through Rome 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Instead, the finale saw Rosalee make it to freedom, then return, willingly, with the abolitionists. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Portraits of influential black figures, from abolitionists to actors, line the top of a wall. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Mac’s question, though, wasn’t “Who was the better abolitionist?” Review: Taylor Mac’s 24-Hour Concert Was One of the Great Experiences of My Life 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The other is Showtime's series adaptation of James McBride's "The Good Lord Bird," set to debut on Aug. 9, in which Diggs portrays the legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "It's like being black in America": "Snowpiercer" star Daveed Diggs on the Tailies with no agency 2020-05-24T04:00:00Z The park in which the abolitionist artwork will be featured is being steered by the city’s economic development agency and the artist has been commissioned by the Department of Cultural Affairs. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “This plan worked well,” the African-American abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in his autobiography, adding, “the slaves became as fearful of tar as of the lash.” Theaster Gates Turns the Stain of the Past Into Art 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z A small group of nonpolitical abolitionists argued for moral suasion. Did northern aggression cause the Civil War? 2012-08-29T21:41:00Z Several students agreed, however, that suffragist Susan B. Anthony and abolitionist Harriet Tubman were admirable women. October’s Class of KidsPost: Silverbrook fifth-graders 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z “The mobs shattered every abolitionist assumption: that righteousness would triumph over evil; that their fellow Americans would listen to reason; that their Northern neighbors would support the abolitionist cause,” the program’s narrator, Oliver Platt, relates. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z But records indicate hundreds were sold at bazaars before the Civil War to raise money for the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, textile historian Roben Campbell said. Black cloth dolls growing in collector popularity 2012-07-28T18:16:04Z More than six hundred thousand people voted for the winner: Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist, nurse, scout, and spy for the northern states during the Civil War. The Haunted Image of Harriet Tubman on the Twenty-Dollar Bill 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z It is the same idea one encounters in radical thinkers today, in Mariame Kaba’s notion of abolitionist feminism as a practice of freedom. The Brief, Brilliant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z The film was said to follow Baartman’s enslavement and a failed court case launched by abolitionists determined to prove she was being made to perform against her will. Beyoncé's rep denies she is making a film about freak-show victim Saartjie Baartman 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It would honor historically significant Black women like the investigative journalist Ida B. Wells and the educator and abolitionist Sarah J. Garnet. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z He was born in the 1830s or early 1840s in Maryland or Virginia and in older age looked like the abolitionist Frederick Douglass, according to one of his granddaughters. An African American mother and daughter journey to their family's... 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The museum there is open, and we stared for a long time at photographs of the abolitionist with his wild eyes. Autumn in the Adirondacks is a mountain do 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z Only much later in life, when the country was being founded, did he become an abolitionist. Ken Burns on Benjamin Franklin & our nation's flawed identity: "Race is the central question" of US 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z One collection of such material at Harvard belonged to the abolitionist politician Charles Sumner. Colored Conventions, a Rallying Point for Black Americans Before the Civil War 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z My husband recognized a portrait of William Lloyd Garrison, the abolitionist. Dostoyevsky vs. Tolstoy: One Family’s Competitive Vacation in Russia 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z He and his family were active in the abolitionist movement, their home a stop on the Underground Railroad. On Thoreau’s 200th Birthday, a New Biography Pictures Him as a Man of Principle 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Last August, in the wake of the controversy, Monumental Women shifted gears and decided to include a third figure — Truth, the African-American abolitionist and suffragist. For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z King compared the civil rights movement with the abolitionist movement, the populist movement of farmers and laborers in the late 19th century, and even to the American Revolution itself. Lessons in resistance from MLK, the “conservative militant” 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Prior socialized with abolitionists and African-Americans as well. Antiques: William Matthew Prior, War of 1812, and Queen Victoria 2012-05-24T22:08:36Z Less well known is an antislavery interpretation of the Constitution mounted by abolitionists and other opponents of slavery to counter the views of the Southern “slave power.” Was the Constitution a Pro-Slavery Document? 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z He and his wife — a free black Marylander who had aided the escape — fled to New Bedford, Mass., where Douglass was recruited to the abolitionist movement while honing his oratory at a local church. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z As for the longstanding claims that Hopkins himself held abolitionist beliefs, it is unclear whether they rest on any evidence at all. At Johns Hopkins, Revelations About Its Founder and Slavery 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z In between, he will deliver his one-man play “Frederick Douglass Now,” a multidisciplinary show presenting the abolitionist’s work and philosophy with a contemporary flair. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z This fall, the New Bedford Historical Society, along with the city, plans to unveil a park dedicated to the area’s abolitionist movement. The Old Whaling Capital of New Bedford Looks Ahead 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z Alcott herself was the second of four daughters, a feminist and abolitionist, and it's said that the character of the headstrong bookworm is semi-autobiographical. Season's reading: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 2010-12-22T12:40:55Z The “Impact of the Bible” floor acknowledges the use of the Bible to defend slavery, as well as the role it played in the abolitionist movement. Perspective | The new Bible museum tells a clear, powerful story. And it could change the museum business. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Shortly after it was announced that abolitionist icon Harriet Tubman would replace slave-holding former-President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, the search term “Harriet Tubman” was a top trending topic on Twitter. “We need Trump to stop all the PC crap”: Right-wing reaction to the Harriet Tubman $20 bill is (another) new low 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z The movie, Mr. Blight said, shows us Lincoln the great abolitionist, rather than the "much messier" and more conflicted pre-1863 Lincoln who believed, among other things, that African-Americans should ultimately be "repatriated" to Africa. ArtsBeat: Historians Look Back, and Inward, at Annual Meeting 2013-01-04T23:52:38Z "Dickinson" also strains in its effort to acknowledge the burgeoning abolitionist movement happening in the family's midst, in part because of the series' blurring of racial boundaries among its elites. Ready, set, bake! Apple's vibrantly witty "Dickinson" layers in the sweetness and spice of fame 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Child was a combative and articulate abolitionist, a campaigner for women’s rights and an advocate for Native Americans. Read Your Way Through Boston 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z The author, a historian at Tufts, dives into the history of a Southern family with two sisters who became influential abolitionists. 15 Books Coming in November 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z Douglass became a marathon traveler for the abolitionist cause at a time when moving about the country by train was punishing in itself. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Taken sometime in the mid-19th century, the photo is contained in an album with 43 other pictures, including portraits of abolitionist Charles Sumner and author Charles Dickens. A rare photo of Harriet Tubman, acquired by the Library of Congress, shows her as a younger woman 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Her family helped ignite the efforts to preserve the building, once owned by the abolitionists Harriet and Thomas Truesdell, that historians believe was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Home of Brooklyn Abolitionists Receives Landmark Status 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z You can’t help but wonder what the Johnsons, 19th-century Quaker abolitionists whose property served as that Underground Railroad stop, would make of the vibrant but low-income African-American neighborhood that surrounds their house today. Frugal Traveler: Off-the-Beaten Path History in Philadelphia 2011-05-03T20:50:37Z Born into slavery in 1818 on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Douglass escaped at the age of 21 and thereafter came to be regarded as one of the nation’s foremost intellectuals, writers and abolitionists. Where I Live: Washington, D.C. 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z As Morris tells us, Wilkinson, despite her abolitionist convictions, mooched her way into a mansion built with a slavery-spawned fortune. How Cults Corrected America 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Among the many fascinating elements of this perilous journey is Hiram’s interaction with these daring abolitionists on both sides of the slavery border. Review | In Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘The Water Dancer,’ a slave makes a superhero’s journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z Mary conspires with the abolitionists even as she consorts with Major Gray. Review: ‘Amazing Grace,’ the Story of a Slave Trader’s Moral Awakening 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The work force was racially integrated, and some factory owners were abolitionists. Collectors Find Historical Value in Broken Glass 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists / Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is,” a defiant Hamilton raps. No ‘Hamilton’ tickets? This behind-the-scenes book may ease the fear of missing out 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Norton, reconstructs the clandestine efforts by black and white abolitionists to help fugitive slaves passing through New York, a city with deep connections to the Southern cotton trade and the textile industry. Eric Foner Wins Historical Society Book Prize 1457-05-25T05:00:00Z The show, largely told through the two young black men’s experiences, documents the rise of the abolitionist movement and the Robinsons’ role. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z They often stopped in Dover, where they would frequently be aided by free black and Quaker abolitionists. Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z In addressing the song we have to ask questions about the poet’s bad faith as a slaveholding abolitionist, about the composer’s motives and about our own. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z In 2006, Laura Miller wrote for the Book Review about “The Amalgamation Polka,” Wright’s novel about the descendant of both ardent abolitionists and unwavering slaveholders. Revisiting Stephen Wright and Historical Fiction 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z In “What Is Visible,” Elkins weaves together Laura’s story with that of Howe and his wife, Julia Ward Howe, the poet, suffragist and abolitionist. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman The 764-page book is meant to tell a narrative of black experience, primarily through an American lens, from abolitionists to Jay-Z. From Du Bois to Dr. Dre: A New Bartlett’s Celebrates Black Quotations 2013-11-18T18:30:34Z But unlike his abolitionist colleagues’ equally accurate depictions of torture, his tableau was wholesome enough to be widely exhibited. Antiques: Elvis Presley Auction; Books on Depictions of Slaves 2012-08-02T21:55:34Z The first installment looks at the 1820s and ’30s, when the abolitionist movement coalesced and began to realize just what it was up against. Television Review: ‘The Abolitionists,’ on PBS, About Advocates Before Lincoln 2013-01-07T23:37:57Z Or, gentlemen, on the other hand, are there laws in this community to defend you from the immediate abolitionist, who would open upon you the floodgates of such extensive wickedness and mischief?” Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z “It is never easy to be a good imperialist,” Blight writes, in an unusually wry aside, “but the old abolitionist did his best.” A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The Gibbonses, abolitionists before the Civil War, used the house as a meeting place, where they helped escaping slaves en route to Canada. Addition to Landmark Is Disputed 2011-01-05T23:05:07Z Lawrence, famously, had painted the abolitionist in 1941, as a haggard visionary, an emaciated specter. In His Own Words: Jacob Lawrence at the Met and MoMA 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Just uphill from Mr. Asalache’s house, reachable via a narrow outdoor staircase called Matrimony Place, is the site of a 1790s boarding school that British abolitionists set up for boys and girls from Sierra Leone. Antiques: Antiques - Khadambi Asalache’s London House Restored 2012-05-31T21:21:28Z Hiram, a slave in Virginia, has the ability to fold physical space like fabric and thus travel instantly to distant points — a skill of great interest to abolitionists. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z And it was increasingly used against abolitionists, and to block any efforts by African-Americans, free or enslaved, to secure rights or otherwise challenge slavery and white supremacy. ‘Sedition’: A Complicated History 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But some viewers felt Brad Pitt’s role as an abolitionist represented the “white savior” trope, which gives white characters the credit for black characters overcoming their struggles. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z As Robin Kravitz, a historian at Delaware State University, put it: “The Quakers started their manumission processes by the American Revolution. So these abolitionist connections run deep through families in this area.” Harriet Tubman’s Path to Freedom 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z After liberating hundreds of slaves from the Undergound Railroad, this biopic reveals elements of heroic abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman’s life and legacy that your teachers never showed you in textbooks. 10 highly-anticipated films coming this fall 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z Blight describes how Douglass moved away from the moral suasion he promoted in his early years on the abolitionist lecture circuit toward his full-throated calls for war. A Big New Biography Treats Frederick Douglass as Man, Not Myth 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z Shawné Lee, whose family has fought for preserving the neighborhood’s abolitionist history, supports the lawsuit. The Art Design for Abolitionist Place in Brooklyn Moves Forward 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “It was a way to connect Douglass’s abolitionist work with our time.” Looking for Frederick Douglass in Savannah 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Earlier this week in Madison, Wis., protesters toppled a statue of Hans Christian Heg, an abolitionist who died trying to end slavery. We Don’t Have to Like Them. We Just Need to Understand Them. 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z A great way to honor the famed abolitionist is the “Path to Freedom” walking tour, led by the guide Lou Fields through Douglass’s home in historic Fells Point, Baltimore’s original waterfront community. Place 19 of 52: A Celebration of African-American Culture in Baltimore 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Jeffrey Wright and others bring to life the quintet of key speeches by Douglass, who escaped slavery and became an abolitionist, renowned orator and writer. TV marks Black History Month with provocative, creative fare 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z He was also, in the years leading up to the Civil War, a determined abolitionist. ‘The Sum of Us’ Tallies the Cost of Racism for Everyone 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z As a stream on the screen, it allows replays, and that means the chance to double-check Miranda’s polysyllabic wizardry: “A bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists/Give me a position, show me where the ammunition is.” Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z White abolitionists gradually lost their taste for mahogany. Antiques: Mahogany’s History in Slavery in the Caribbean 2012-08-23T22:00:55Z Lay was better known among abolitionists than among their later historians. A radical for our time: Benjamin Lay, the Quaker dwarf abolitionist you didn't learn about in class 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z And then there’s the question of Hamilton the “uncompromising abolitionist,” as Mr. Chernow puts it in his book. ‘Hamilton’ and History: Are They In Sync? 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z As I sat in Bethesda Meeting, my Oberlin visit got me thinking about how active Quakers were in the abolitionist movement, and how many of them worked on the Underground Railroad. Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z Unlike other abolitionists, Brown thought that the violence of slavery demanded violence in return. How Accurate Was ‘The Good Lord Bird’? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Like many other black colleges, it was born shortly after the Civil War, when black churches, abolitionists and others mobilized to educate a population of slaves for whom learning to read was illegal. ‘Howard trained me intellectually’: Ta-Nehisi Coates to speak at school’s Charter Day 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Joined by the jazz band the Red Hook Ramblers, Mr. Miller will offer spirituals, Civil War songs, abolitionist anthems and original works inspired by the show. Spare Times for Children for Jan. 31-Feb. 6 2014-01-31T00:12:05Z But the House was divided between abolitionist Republicans and Confederate-leaning Democrats, called Copperheads, who invoked scripture to oppose the law. Lincoln: Spielberg’s Urgent Civics Lesson 2012-11-08T13:00:50Z His son, the poet James Russell Lowell, also inveighed against slavery, fearlessly promoting the abolitionist cause while also undergoing disastrous personal losses. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In 2015, renowned slavery and Reconstruction historian Eric Foner wrote, "Slave is a familiar word and if it was good enough for Frederick Douglass and other abolitionists it is good enough for me." "The Underground Railroad" attempts to upend viewers’ notions of what it meant to be enslaved 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The abolitionist Sojourner Truth’s most famous portrait shows her posed with a pair of knitting needles and yarn. ‘In This House’ Yard Signs, and Their Curious Power 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z The man appointed to lead the commission was a former abolitionist Massachusetts Senator named Henry Dawes. Slave descendants seek equal rights from Cherokee Nation 2013-05-21T22:15:00Z This Boston abolitionist viciously assailed colonization and “Mr. Jefferson’s arguments” in the first book-length attack on the “inhuman system of slavery” by an African-American. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The Robinsons, devout Quakers and uncompromising abolitionists, ran a Merino sheep farm and orchard here, and joined a network of Northerners that helped form the Underground Railroad, aiding enslaved African-Americans in their quest for freedom. Using History to Provide a Lens Into Today’s Politics 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z The rebellion halted abolitionists’ ambitions and spurred harsher laws against slaves and blacks. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Are you willing, gentlemen, to abandon your country, to permit it to be taken from you, and occupied by the abolitionist, according to whose taste it is to associate and amalgamate with the negro? Francis Scott Key on trial 2012-07-04T11:30:00Z As Garrison’s brave example demonstrates, death penalty abolitionists cannot be intimidated by threats of violence. 5 things you may not know about death penalty 2013-04-03T13:05:00Z Often filtered through the sensibilities of collaborating abolitionists, they amounted, Delbanco writes, to “more than propaganda and less than literature.” How the Dispute Over Runaway Slaves Helped Fuel the Civil War 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z Also planned is a memorial to Brooklyn abolitionists that will be part of the new Willoughby Square Park when it opens in 2015. ArtsBeat: Brooklyn Historical Society to Present Exhibition on Abolitionists 2013-12-09T17:21:22Z The question has lingered around the edges of the pop-culture ascendancy of Alexander Hamilton: Did the 10-dollar founding father, celebrated in the musical “Hamilton” as a “revolutionary manumission abolitionist,” actually own slaves? Alexander Hamilton, Enslaver? New Research Says Yes 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Thugs from Missouri got in the fray, crossing the border to attack abolitionist settlers. The controversy behind the painting that will hang at Trump’s inaugural luncheon 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z But once it has been challenged—by Jacobins, or Bolsheviks, or abolitionists—it is no longer a virtuous bundle of unthought habits by which the past guides the present. The Book That Predicted Trump 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The Nation was founded by abolitionists in 1865, shortly after the Civil War, in what the founding editors declared would be remembered “as one of the most famous years in history.” A Yearlong Celebration of The Nation's 150th Anniversary 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z A major five-year exhibition opening Jan. 15 at the Brooklyn Historical Society will bring to life the stories of largely unknown Brooklyn abolitionists who led the anti-slavery movement. ArtsBeat: Brooklyn Historical Society to Present Exhibition on Abolitionists 2013-12-09T17:21:22Z Skilled at throwing and glazing large stoneware storage jars, Drake signed his vessels and sometimes incised them with poems and abolitionist messages. New Shows That Widen the Beaten Path 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z As an adult, he ran a grocery shop in Westminster, was an abolitionist and composer and moved in leading literary, political and artistic circles, which was exceptional for a Black man at that time. Read Your Way Through London 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z Burns was represented by Richard Henry Dana and Charles M. Ellis, two of Boston’s finest abolitionist attorneys. “We waked up stark mad Abolitionists” 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z The play itself is described as being about “a playwright who is misled by a historian of white history into believing that Alexander Hamilton was an abolitionist,” and his path to learning Hamilton’s true story. Ishmael Reed’s Play Challenging ‘Hamilton’ Will Get Reading 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z Protester Sam Beard, rallying the crowd Monday said the movement has fused environmentalists and police abolitionists and is a model of resistance against police militarization. Police and protesters clash at Atlanta training center site derided by opponents as ‘Cop City’ 2023-11-13T05:00:00Z Dominique Janee: This neighborhood was so tight-knit that it's likely Rebecca Crumpler crossed paths with and got to know at least some of these abolitionist luminaries. The U.S.’s First Black Female Physician Cared for Patients from Cradle to Grave 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z “As a radical Black organization grounded in abolitionist ideals, we see clear parallels between Black and Palestinian people. For lasting peace to come, the entire apartheid system must be dismantled.” Black Lives Matter chapters receive backlash after posting that they stand with Palestinians 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z He said he has begun referring to himself as an “abortion abolitionist” because he believes the term “pro-life” has become meaningless. Anti-abortion groups are at odds on strategies ahead of Ohio vote. It could be a preview for 2024 2023-09-30T04:00:00Z She was a young girl when abolitionist Harriet Tubman guided a group that was running from slave catchers to a station of the Underground Railroad in Syracuse, New York. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z In the wake of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020, protests, looting, and anger were boiling up in the streets of Boston, a city that has played host to both abolitionists and vicious race riots. An Ambitious Antiracism Center Scales Back Amid a Funding Slowdown 2023-09-23T04:00:00Z And abolitionists, both Black and white helped finance her schooling. The U.S.’s First Black Female Physician Cared for Patients from Cradle to Grave 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was a respected abolitionist in 18th Century Britain - but, despite his significant role in the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, his story is not that well-known. Quobna Cugoano: London church honours Ghanaian-born freed slave and abolitionist 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z Frederick Douglass escaped slavery from Maryland in 1838 and became a well-known abolitionist, writer, speaker, and supporter of the Underground Railroad. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z And he was a widely known abolitionist speaker, so he was not hard to track down. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Many suffragists were also abolitionists, people who wanted to end slavery. Womens Suffrage Movement 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z She, like many of the abolitionists after the Civil War, turned her sights to women's rights, and she lectured on temperance. The U.S.’s First Black Female Physician Cared for Patients from Cradle to Grave 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z They even show Frederick Douglass, a famous abolitionist, making excuses for slavery by claiming it was "a compromise to achieve something great." PragerU's Confederate propaganda isn't just misleading — it props up modern insurrectionists 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z Another Underground Railroad operator was William Still, a free Black business owner and abolitionist movement leader. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Sarah's grandparents were noted abolitionists themselves, so Sarah was born with certain advantages. Reconstruction Helped Her Become a Physician. Jim Crow Drove Her to Flee the U.S. 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z He’s a self-proclaimed abortion abolitionist, intent on outlawing abortion at all stages, for any reason. ‘This is a long game’: After Roe, the fight over abortion access moves to New Mexico 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z One video depicts slavery abolitionist Frederick Douglass saying that while slavery was wrong and evil, it was a compromise the Founding Fathers had to make to “achieve something great.” How Ron DeSantis used Florida schools to become a culture warrior 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z One encounter is with Frederick Douglass, the Black abolitionist. Column: The right-wing campaign to make our kids dumber 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z But the 1850 law only inspired abolitionists to help fugitives more. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z Cugoano, who was one of the most prominent abolitionists of the time, was baptised at the church, said the Diocese of London. Piccadilly: Church commemorates forgotten black history figure 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z The Comstock Act has expressive as well as instrumental appeal for the antiabortion movement, especially abortion abolitionists. Opinion: How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z She was kicked out of an abolitionist church before Seneca Falls because she was so fierce about the need for abolition. Saving democracy from the ground up: David Pepper on how to fight the GOP and win 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z In 1871, abolitionist Frederick Douglass feared Americans were forgetting the Civil War’s impetus - slavery - when he gave a Decoration Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery. From the Civil War to today’s mattress sales, Memorial Day is full of contradiction 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z In 1851, a group of angry abolitionists stormed a Boston, Massachusetts, courthouse to break out a runaway from jail. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z She pores over old essays by white abolitionists. A Black woman and a white woman went viral fighting racism. Then they stopped speaking to each other 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Today, the abolitionist movement supports draconian criminal penalties for women who have the procedure, even including the death penalty, and it doesn’t allow exceptions to abortion bans. Opinion: How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z The controversial effort was overwhelmingly rejected by Black people in America, leading many former supporters to become abolitionists instead. Stained glass window shows Jesus Christ with dark skin, stirring questions about race in New England 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z Scott and other abolitionists such as Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth and Douglass, he argued, knew that free speech “was a right that we were not given by a government.” Killer Mike goes off: 'Right now, in this country, your freedom of speech is at risk' 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z The operators of the Underground Railroad were abolitionists, or people who opposed slavery. The Underground Railroad 2022-01-31T05:00:00Z A decade before the Civil War, the prophetic abolitionist Frederick Douglass rose to the dais at Rochester’s Corinthian Hall in celebration of the 76th Independence Day of the nation. Faith in a better future for Israel endures beyond the fallibility of the moment | Op-Ed 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z But let me state for the record that I am not a gun abolitionist. So how do we locate the good guy with the gun? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Harriet Tubman looked to the North Star to point the way for the Africans she helped escape from slavery, and Frederick Douglass named one of his abolitionist newspapers after it. With a Black Californian headed to the moon, many see cosmic justice for a whole race 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z The gifts included a Bible that once belonged to abolitionist Frederick Douglass — a gift Thomas valued at $19,000 — and a bust of Abraham Lincoln valued at $15,000. The Times reported about Justice Thomas' gifts 20 years ago. After that he stopped disclosing them. 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Nineteenth-century abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass memorized the speeches of Cicero, in the hope that powerful oratory of the sort that once swayed the Roman Senate and courts would move America’s own leadership toward needed change. Opinion | As Black educators, we endorse classical studies 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Severance, like her husband, was also a ferocious abolitionist. Patt Morrison: The naked truth about L.A.'s swanky private clubs 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z "It is not that a white person cannot be part of the anti-racist struggle, but about recognizing an abolitionist Black man as a defender of human rights," deputy minister Rita Oliveira said in a statement. Brazil creates rights medal named after Black writer, replacing princess 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Claiming he was an abolitionist, Rochussen hired Said as a valet, promising great sights in the New World before taking him to Africa. Review | The epic life of Nicholas Said, from Africa to Russia to the Civil War 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Tucked in the Puente Hills Preserve, about 12 miles southeast of Los Angeles, Whittier was founded by Quakers in 1887 and named after poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier. Plunging enrollment, financial woes, trustee exodus. Whittier College confronts crisis 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z The scenes prompted wider interest in the militant left, with more visibility for independent local networks, some of them organizing under “John Brown Gun Club,” named after the militant abolitionist who was executed in 1859. Armed with AR-15s, extremist and militia groups anticipate civil unrest In that spirit, the walls around Simmons’s sculpture feature photo collages of Black figures holding flowers — a nod to abolitionist iconography, Simmons says, as well as a “sensual” respite from the “heady” demands of “Align.” The Black Artists Claiming More Space Than Ever Before 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Ever since City Council approved the $90 million training center in 2021, the movement has brought together a whole host of leftists, including environmentalists and police abolitionists. Muddy clothes? ‘Cop City’ activists question police evidence 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Thanks to the long and hard work of many nuclear abolitionists, The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons now provides a legal framework for eliminating all nuclear weapons. The lesson of this moment: Abolish nuclear weapons | Op-Ed 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z Yet through both his words and his actions, Audubon the man was an unrepentant enslaver and opponent of the abolitionist movement — an aspect of his legacy under scrutiny today. National Audubon Society, pressured to drop enslaver’s name, keeps it 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z But, in addition to his illustrations, Mr. Audubon also wrote about his dismissal of the abolitionist movement, according to the National Audubon Society. Audubon Society Keeps Name Despite Slavery Ties, Dividing Birders 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z The result of the controversial Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was widespread opposition in the North, riots and revolts, the doubling down by abolitionists, the expansion of the Underground Railroad and the act’s eventual repeal. Opinion | Ron DeSantis is taking a page from the Fugitive Slave Act playbook 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The name of the lone Black American who is included — abolitionist Frederick Douglass — was misspelled for more than a century before being corrected in 2019. ‘Million-Dollar Staircase’ Adds a New Face: Ruth Bader Ginsburg 2023-03-12T05:00:00Z The immediate cause was Northern celebration of John Brown, the abolitionist who attempted to provoke a slave rebellion by seizing the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry. Take threats of ‘National Divorce’ seriously 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “The millions that we’ve put into this contract have not made us safer and have not made the train stations in my district any safer,” said Hernandez, a self-described abolitionist on law enforcement and prisons. Vote on LAPD transit patrols sparks City Hall debate over safety on Metro system 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Lincoln was not then an abolitionist, deferring to the states to decide whether to eradicate slavery. Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Many of the people who responded to Finnney’s altar calls for salvation also joined the abolitionist movement. Why students at a Kentucky Christian school are praying and singing round the clock 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z She has come under fire for her remarks in the past, including calling American abolitionist Harriet Tubman "unrelatable". Former Disney executive and author Dave Hollis dies aged 47 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The home believed to be Manokey’s is on private property, while the archaeological remains of the home of Ben Ross, the abolitionist’s father, are located on the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Near Tubman’s birthplace: ‘We found Africa on Maryland’s Eastern Shore’ 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z Harriet Tubman, the abolitionist, is supposed to appear on the $20 bill, but that change will most likely take several years because of a deadline concerning counterfeiting protections. Celia Cruz Will Be First Afro-Latina to Appear on the U.S. Quarter 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z “We live here, have a right to live here and mean to live here,” abolitionist Frederick Douglass wrote in his newspaper “The North Star” in 1849. Abraham Lincoln’s disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the U.S. 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z See, the novice politician identifies as a police abolitionist. Column: A police abolitionist city council member and the LAPD union's tense tango 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z One incident in particular, involving the Portland Freedom Fund, a self-described “abolitionist organization” that focuses on helping low-income, Black and minority defendants post bail, tested Portlanders’ commitment to the Black Lives Matter movement. What's the matter with Portland? Shootings, theft and other crime test city's progressive strain 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z A gifted orator, she had also established herself as a renowned speaker on the abolitionist circuit and a fierce champion for the rights of newly freed Black women. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z I am a police and prison abolitionist not because I have an idea for a more effective replacement, though Mayor Bass hiring more social workers than new cops would be a good start. Essay: The mother of Tyre Nichols couldn't hear his cries. Can you? 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z His campaign theme could have been taken from a quote by the abolitionist Charles Sumner, who felt that when it came to social justice, the District should be “an example for all the land.” Perspective | Making D.C.’s Ward 3 ‘an example for all the land’ 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z “And working people. And so an abolitionist is taking that and transforming it into something that actually works.” Column: A police abolitionist city council member and the LAPD union's tense tango 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Newton later repented, became an abolitionist and wrote the hymn “Amazing Grace.” Church of England sheds light on ‘shameful’ slave trade ties 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z William Still was a stationmaster for the Underground Railroad, and Harper, inspired by his work with fugitives, turned to writing poetry for abolitionist newspapers, such as Frederick Douglass’ Paper and William Lloyd Garrison’s The Liberator. Overlooked No More: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Poet and Suffragist 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z No, I am an abolitionist because I struggle to think of anything worse than what we currently have. Essay: The mother of Tyre Nichols couldn't hear his cries. Can you? 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z The 1.4-mile tunnel that runs under residential Baltimore will be named after Frederick Douglass, who was born a slave in Maryland before escaping north and becoming a renowned abolitionist. Biden Visits Decrepit Rail Tunnel to Promote $1 Trillion Infrastructure Law 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Officials are preparing to break ground on a $5 billion project that includes a new tunnel named for the abolitionist and Underground Railroad booster Frederick Douglass, which they hope will go into service by 2032. Biden to promote Baltimore spending as Republicans try to force cuts 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z It will be named for Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery in Maryland and became a prominent abolitionist. Biden visit to Baltimore highlights rail tunnel project 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The Nation, based in New York, was founded in 1865 by abolitionists and had long been an influential voice for civil rights, free expression, progressive labor legislation and criticism of the Vietnam War. Victor S. Navasky, a Leading Liberal Voice in Journalism, Dies at 90 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z With his hand on a Bible once owned by abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Wes Moore was sworn in Wednesday to become Maryland’s first Black governor and only the third elected in U.S. history. Wes Moore sworn in, making history as Md.’s first Black governor 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z Moore will take the oath of office using a Bible owned by Frederick Douglass, a Marylander who escaped slavery on the state’s Eastern Shore before going on to become an author and famed abolitionist. Wes Moore to be sworn in as Maryland’s first Black governor 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Sojourner Truth is an icon for her work as both an abolitionist and a feminist. They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The 45-year-old hospitality worker, who declined to give his full name, described himself as an “abolitionist” who wants to criminalize abortion as homicide. For ultraconservatives in McCarthy's red California district, speaker drama in D.C. was welcome 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z Banks’ most ambitious novel is a fictionalization of the life of abolitionist John Brown, who led an 1859 slave revolt at Harpers Ferry and was executed shortly thereafter. 5 essential Russell Banks novels you should read 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z The move was decried by Union veterans’ groups and Northern lawmakers; one introduced a bill to build a statue of abolitionist John Brown in Richmond as revenge. Art at Capitol honors 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates. Who are they? But although Johnson, an abolitionist, intended the scene to humanize African Americans, the artwork would go on to be used as proslavery propaganda. How an abolitionist painting set in D.C. became proslavery propaganda 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z But instead of settling into the tranquility of freedom, they became nationally famous abolitionists, even as the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 put a target on their backs. They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z On June 2, the city streets were decked in black banners and filled with crowds of abolitionists as Burns was marched in shackles to the wharf. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The violent fury of the abolitionists’ principles has been replaced by the quiet intensity of the Shakers’ faith. Review | ‘The Magic Kingdom,’ by Russell Banks, reveals a paradise lost 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z “Recognized as a searing indictment of slavery, Gordon’s portrait was presented as the latest evidence in the abolitionist campaign,” Goodyear wrote. 'Emancipation' producer called out for showing off photo of enslaved man at premiere 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The New-York Tribune understood its abolitionist message, writing that it was “a sort of ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of pictures” and presented “a sad picture of Southern Slavery.” How an abolitionist painting set in D.C. became proslavery propaganda 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z And the idea that they became abolitionists at great risk is hugely important, showing the idea of linked fate.” They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z The Slave Power idea had a strong basis in fact, but abolitionists and Republican politicians inflated and weaponized it as propaganda in a politics of fear. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The picture shows severe scarring of Gordon's back from whippings, and became one of the most well-known photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War. Emancipation: Has 'slapgate' influenced reviews of new Smith film? 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z He expanded the museum’s contemporary art holdings, and commissioned a multi-screen film installation from the British artist Isaac Julien, who focused on Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist leader who had deep ties to Rochester. Phillips Collection hires art historian as new director 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Mr. Gerson and Bush found common ground in the use of religious themes of higher power and light vs. darkness, seeing such rhetoric as part of other historic struggles, including the abolitionist movement. Michael Gerson, Post columnist and Bush speechwriter on 9/11, dies at 58 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z But her fullest portraits of supporting players are reserved for members of the various factions of the abolitionist movement, both Black and white — including William Still, William Wells Brown and Robert Purvis. They posed as master and slave: The dramatic escape story behind a pathbreaking book 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z To radical abolitionists, and certainly to many Republicans, the most offensive part of the decision was that it closed off the possibility of liberty or citizenship for free Black people. Was the Civil War Inevitable? 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z The state was cradle to some of our nation’s most influential abolitionists while being the site of some of our nation’s most productive — and markedly cruel — tobacco plantations. Perspective | 200 years after Harriet Tubman’s birth, Md. finally gets a Black governor 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z That silence marks an important milestone in the struggle to end the death penalty in the United States and an important tactical victory for abolitionists. Crime is a hot issue, but even Republicans don't talk about the death penalty: That's good news 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The bar’s owner, who is also Bloomsburg’s mayor, got a call saying that abortion abolitionists — those who want a total ban on abortions and criminal penalties for women who seek them — might disrupt the event. The Gender Gap in the Abortion Debate 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The projected wins for the Democrats would also place the home state of abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass at the vanguard of an expected nationwide trend of diversifying political representation as demographics shift. In Md., Black people poised to occupy four critical positions of power 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z In his DSA candidate questionnaire, he identified himself as an abolitionist on the issue of policing and prisons. Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 13 race: Mitch O'Farrell vs. Hugo Soto-Martinez 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z On the issue of policing and prisons, she described herself as an abolitionist. Hire officers? Abolish the police? L.A.'s election reveals deep divisions over the LAPD 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The music of the black composer, revolutionary and slavery abolitionist was "erased" by Napoleon during the French Revolution. Black History Month: Opera must be more accessible say theatre leaders 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z After his death, even his erstwhile abolitionist critics came around: “I see now the wisdom of his course,” said Stanton. Review | In Jon Meacham’s biography, Lincoln is a guiding light for our times 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z In July 2021, Merrick Garland imposed a moratorium on federal executions and gave a speech straight out of the abolitionist playbook. Joe Biden and the death penalty: N.Y. terror case suggests he can't make up his mind 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z But he also has told voters that being an abolitionist does not necessarily mean seeking to eliminate the LAPD. Your guide to the L.A. City Council District 13 race: Mitch O'Farrell vs. Hugo Soto-Martinez 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z O’Farrell also noted that Soto-Martinez listed himself as an abolitionist, someone who favors “abolition of police and the prison industrial complex,” on a questionnaire submitted to the L.A. chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. Hire officers? Abolish the police? L.A.'s election reveals deep divisions over the LAPD 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Correctly or otherwise, they feared that Lincoln was an abolitionist and opponent of white supremacy, both ideals that they held to be central to their Southern identity. How the South won the PR war while losing the Civil War 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z And if someone in the North promulgated abolitionist ideas with too much effect, they could be targeted for bounties, beaten in the street or killed. Opinion | ‘Gaffes’ aside, I once assumed GOP goodwill on race. I was wrong. 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z The liberal arts college is honoring them with the award bearing the name of alumnus Elijah Parish Lovejoy, an abolitionist newspaper publisher who was killed by a mob for his anti-slavery editorials in 1837. AP journalists honored for courage in documenting Mariupol 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z Abortion abolitionists believe they are fighting a holy Christian mission. ‘Saved by Grace’: Evangelicals Find a Way Forward With Herschel Walker 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Darling, in an interview, said he is not an abolitionist. Hire officers? Abolish the police? L.A.'s election reveals deep divisions over the LAPD 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z The historical image — which first appeared in a July 4 issue of Harper’s Weekly and helped fuel the abolitionist movement — shows a bare back covered in whipping scars. Ending speculation, Will Smith's 'Emancipation' drops trailer and release date 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The fasces became a symbol of the abolitionist movement, much to the annoyance of some Southerners. Perspective | A new book explores the fasces, a symbol of power — and of unity 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z Founder of the abortion "abolitionist" group Free the States puts it directly: His movement believes "those who choose to murder their children" should be punished. Is abortion murder? Doug Mastriano thinks so — and a lot of other Republicans agree 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Let’s stipulate this: Everyone in our city wants to feel safe, whether your politics are aggressively moderate or orthodox abolitionist. What Seattle Mayor Harrell’s budget will reveal on city’s core beliefs 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z Think about it: these are not abolitionists requesting more diversion programs and jail alternatives — these are law enforcement professionals. Public safety is about solving tough problems, not scoring political points 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The passionate abolitionist's final words were, "This pain. This pain." This president was shot in the back, but the doctors are the ones who killed him 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z According to Mickelwait’s own website, she previously worked at Exodus Cry, a Christian “abolitionist” group that wants to “end the sex industry” and lists Mickelwait’s “TraffickingHub” under the “our campaigns” section of its website. Instagram removes PornHub’s account as pressure from campaigners grows 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z This time, by people who say they love Black people and center abolitionist values but whose actions are furthest from movement principles of courageous conversations, reconciliation, and finding pathways for peace.” Column: In this Black Lives Matter family feud, we'll get transparency. But at what cost? 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z In interviews, three tenants who operated out of the corner storefront over most of the past 28 years said they had never heard of Wright or the building’s abolitionist history until informed by a reporter. In a storied building, the tale about the abolitionist is rarely told 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z More than 150 years after it was officially outlawed in the United States, slavery will be on the ballot in five states in November, as a new abolitionist movement seeks to reshape prison labor. Yes, slavery is on the ballot in some states 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z By “talking back” to formerly enslaved abolitionist Sojourner Truth throughout, hooks identifies ways in which feminist movements have failed to focus on Black women and women of color. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z Second, to balance this concession to the South, Congress admitted California as a free state, a move that cheered antislavery advocates and abolitionists in the North. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Slavery was outlawed and enslaved people were granted citizenship because of the actions of abolitionists. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Hill in Virginia would take the name of Dr. Mary Walker, an abolitionist and champion of women’s rights who became the first female surgeon in Army history. Breaking with the cult of the Confederacy 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z There were a lot of white people in the abolitionist movement as well. Historian Linda Hirshman: We need a "revived feminist movement" ready to fight "white innocence" 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Douglass went on to work as an activist in the abolitionist movement as well as the women’s suffrage movement. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z When federal officials arrested Burns in 1854, abolitionists staged a series of mass demonstrations and a confrontation at the courthouse. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Although some abolitionists were wealthy White men, most were ordinary people, including men and women of both races. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z Other local luminaries had ties to the war’s Union forces and their abolitionist, Lincoln Republican ways of thinking, Heisler says. Born of war, the Woman’s Relief Corps represented our ‘higher sphere’ 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Yes, that Frederick Douglass, the abolitionist, writer and polymathic political thinker, who escaped enslavement and became one of the most influential — and photographed — Americans of the 19th century. Thanks to a new musical, Frederick Douglass dances into pop culture 2022-07-23T04:00:00Z A core focus is abolitionist, statesman, writer and “Lion of Anacostia” Frederick Douglass. These D.C. walking tours go far beyond the National Mall 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z He told other abolitionists of his plan to take Harpers Ferry Armory and initiate a massive slave uprising. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The tactics used to influence the government and effect change by abolitionists and members of the women’s rights and African American civil rights movements are still used by many activists today. American Government 2021-07-28T00:00:00Z An abolitionist’s polemic didn’t break the news that slavery exists; it argued that slave holding was incompatible with the country’s values and urged ways to put an end to it. Opinion journalism matters now more than ever 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z As a Black man with long experience of affirmative action, Thomas has argued — echoing the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass — that the supposed benevolence of racial preferences is harmful to those it purports to help. Opinion | The end of affirmative action at colleges could be a good thing 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z I’m reminded of the words of abolitionist Frederick Douglass who asked in 1852: “What to the American slave is your Fourth of July?” Column: This Fourth of July, California backing reparations is the truest form of patriotism 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, southern leaders suspected that Republican abolitionists would employ the violent tactics of John Brown to deprive southerners of their enslaved property. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The measure failed, but it got further than any of the other so-called “equal protection” bills abolitionists have worked to introduce in about a dozen states over the past two years. Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Zimmerman noted that abolitionist Frederick Douglass, suffragist Susan B. Anthony and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. were “ardent patriots” who understood they needed to love the nation’s “ideals of liberty and equality.” Independence Day on track to be a conservative holiday, say experts 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z A college course that explored the systemic forces behind the war on drugs turned her into a community activist and an abolitionist. Column: Why L.A., not San Francisco, could become the most progressive city in California 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z One celebrates the Declaration of Independence, which contains what the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass called “saving principles.” Opinion | Juneteenth is meant to unite us, just like the Fourth of July 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z The small but very vocal abolitionist movement further contributed to the escalating tensions between the North and the South. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z Privately, some leaders of mainstream groups worry about how quickly abolitionists have gained a foothold. Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Matelski believes the Mingo legend has its roots in the stories abolitionists popularized in order to underscore the “casual cruelty” of the slave industry they fiercely opposed. Efforts spotlight slave who inspired beach name, local tale 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z In an election year supposedly defined by the public’s anxiety over rising crime and diminishing law enforcement, Los Angeles is on the verge of electing its first abolitionist City Council member. Column: Why L.A., not San Francisco, could become the most progressive city in California 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z She’s basically saying that she sees artists and abolitionists as the same because they’re two of the only people that can imagine something that isn’t there yet. Tell your own story. L.A.'s Black Image Center is here to help you 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Since the 1830s, abolitionists, led by journalist and reformer William Lloyd Garrison, had cast slavery as a national sin and called for its immediate end. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z A group called Free the States is pushing abolitionist campaigns from Oklahoma. Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z |
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