The book sold over 300,000 copies, making it the most widely sold novel of the 19th Century. Its stark depiction of the horrors of slavery fueled the abolitionist movement and elevated tensions between free and slave-holding states leading up to the

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'Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.'
- Virginia Woolf

Good morning bookworms! is with you for the next couple of hours and bids you welcome to a spring themed 📚🌼

🎨Sir John Lavery

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Lucifer Diamond (elf), being racist to Dark elves, a mad little tinny man, slavery (he is from the 1700-1800s ish), saying slurs a lot, forcing his grandson to be named mistake

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The French Riviera had attracted Impressionist and Fauve painters such as Monet, Renoir and Matisse in the middle years of the Third Republic. John Lavery retraced their footsteps in 1920 and painted his wife Hazel on the balcony of the Eden-Grand Hotel at Cap d’Ail.

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WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

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This discover the heroine, Eliza Harris of Uncle Tom's Cabin. This is based on a Eliza was real and so was her harrowing crossing of the semi-frozen Ohio River in 1838 to escape slavery.

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AWAKE
CHAPTER4
SLAVERY GIVE ME
ECHOS EDITION
NEO UNDERLYING

FEDA
ILLUSTRATION




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'Sutton Courtenay'~ Sir John Lavery, (1917)

Lavery was a good colourist - evidenced here by the cool blue tones of the shadows on the first punt, the repetition of these and the yellow of the dress in the bridge in the background and the green depths of the water below.

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GM!
The chains of slavery only bind the hands: it is the mind that makes the man free or slave.
Franz Grillparzer.

If you don't have inner freedom, what other freedom do you hope to have?


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'La Dame aux Perles'~ Sir John Lavery, (1901)

The sitter for this portrait has been identified by the art critic Walter Shaw Sparrow as Marguerite Von Höllrigl. The painting became known as La Dame aux Perles.

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After years of lighting paintings by ⁩ I am still excited each time.

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Such an important book! Being the only brown girl in a classroom of white children is especially hard when the subjects of slavery and civil rights come up. When your identity is tied to those two, when do you get to talk about all of the other things that make up who you are? 4/

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Exploitation,
Death & Slavery
( there's more )
Are used by the powers-that-be
To maintain and control the status quo
( rule the world )
Maybe it's more complicated
Or maybe it's far worse

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AWAKE
CHAPTER4
SLAVERY GIVE ME
ECHOS EDITION
NEO UNDERLYING

Quasar




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It's not about the money, it's about the people slaverysaturday

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