Rep. Preston Brooks (D-SC) beat Sen. Charles Sumner (R-MA) with a cane on the floor of the US Senate in 1856. The violent attack is considered a key turning point in the breakdown of discussion between abolitionists and pro-slavery groups in the years before the

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’s GOOD LORD BIRD chronicling crazier-than-a-shithouse-rat Abolitionist John Brown‘s brutal odyssey to ignite a slave rebellion across the south, comes to this August with to scream away your coronavirus blues!

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Besides, the abolition of capitalism does not immediately create the economic prerequisites for such a change. (https://t.co/BqIbDRd1bx)

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Larkin's Choice is free to read on
Real history meets a not so real romance.
Come travel through time to meet William Sims, revolutionary soldier and abolitionist. https://t.co/q8EfYToz9b

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ジ・オーブ(The Orb)の「Abolition of the Royal Familia」を聴いています。とてもかっこいいです。

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The quote is by Sojourner Truth, an American abolitionist and women’s rights activist born in 1797.

Freaking nonsense for it to be 2020 and still have to hit the streets for equal rights…

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From Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer scientist, to Fanny Kemble, writer, actress and abolitionist, has been home to brave, inspiring and talented women for centuries: https://t.co/Z5b8ygRC56 Image: (courtesy )

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-- feminist, campaigner for better education, reforms to child labour law, Italian independence and the abolition of slavery…and also one of the greatest Victorian poets! ✍️📚

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Aujourd'hui est un jour un peu particulier : nous célébrons la première abolition de l'esclavage, survenue il y a 226 ans le 4 février 1794. Elle sera appliquée en Guadeloupe, Guyane et à la Réunion ; Haïti les avait déjà précédé quelques mois auparavant.
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I don’t often like or admire what is pumped into bookshops as a best-seller, but this is tremendous - an 18th century war hero trying to solve the murder of his best friend, involved in the abolition of the slave trade.

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Pioneering artist Elizabeth Catlett's print of Sojourner Truth, 1947, African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was enslaved from birth in Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826

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January 1, 1804: The Haitian Revolution succeeds. Haiti declares independence, making it the world's first Black republic + first nation to abolish slavery.

This dealt a magnificent blow to the French colonial empire and created hemispheric shifts in the abolition of slavery.

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to October 2019: website is opened “
In October 2019, we opened the website as the information hub of initiatives for the abolition of nuclear weapons and building peace. Check the latest information.
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Benjamin Lay est un végétarien militant, féministe et abolitionniste anglais du 18e s qui kidnappa momentanément l'enfant d'une famille d'esclavagistes pour "leur montrer ce que ressentaient les africains lorsque leur proches étaient vendus à l'étranger".

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OTD in 1859, is hanged for leading an anti-slavery insurrection. Find out how this occasion was marked by one of most outspoken abolitionists and abolitionist churches, and the rest of their amazing work: https://t.co/tyXs1sioRz

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I hope you’re all enjoying Amazons Abolitionists and Activists so far. Fun fact of the day, I smuggled the excellent , The Man and the Legend into page 165 ;)

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!!!!!!!!TODAY!!!!!!! Love is a battlefield and so is history. Get ‘Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists’ written by and illustrated by me online or in nationwide now!!

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Larkin's Choice is free to read on
Real history meets a not so real romance.
Come travel through time to meet William Sims, revolutionary soldier and abolitionist. https://t.co/q8EfYToz9b

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