One miracle associated with St. Patrick is the "Miracle of the Pigs." While escaping slavery St. Patrick & his fellow travelers were starving. Food miraculously appeared to him in the form of a herd of swine & pigs became a symbol of good luck

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In 1849, enslaved American Henry Brown boxed himself up and mailed himself to a state where slavery was illegal. He left the box a free man.

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'The Mother' painted by Sir John Lavery. This portrait began life in 1909, as a profile study of Lavery’s friend and model Mary Auras, and ended as a study of motherhood in 1924, showing his daughter Eileen with her child. Happy Mother's Day to all mothers.

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23. Jake, an NPC from the D&D campaign with the Maha'i! https://t.co/1uR0O4kzBF

24. , all bou'ed! https://t.co/zvbmTlb7mV

25. 's character Jamie! https://t.co/DA1qvAsWo8

26. Anti-slavery skyship pirate druid Nkadu! https://t.co/d6fx0YjSyG

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Yaaaasss queen slaaay!!! slaaaay all the men in Gaza and sell their kids into slavery! Crucify the men of Tyre cause you're a quirkly little gemini Bi queen!!! https://t.co/enkiOvG4Dk

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The Chess Players by John Lavery.

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FEB 27, 1860 – Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at Cooper Union, in which he insisted that morality required opposition to slavery, and rejected any "groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong".
https://t.co/1NDJHdKP0C

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"A central strength of 's Wicked Flesh is the reminder, in document after document, petition after petition, that enslaved women did not need the ideals of the Age of Revolutions to know the illogic of slavery." --

https://t.co/EzHiFoI96r

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The world's most successful slave revolt (1791-1804) led to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti: the 2nd republic in the "Americas", 1st to abolish slavery & today the Caribbean's most populous.

But western powers have sought to keep it down ever since.

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Enjoy the art! Today’s is Sir John Lavery’s 1929 painting of Baths, sold by in 2016. Thanks to . See more + history: https://t.co/kFz2SBZUQN + on the mural at Turnham Green tube station. https://t.co/WTXFi2Mn49

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Mezzonia is one of the largest states of demi-humans in the world—a relative haven for the Accursed. The Mezzonians are descended from an ancient hero named Mezzon who staged the first attempted revolution in Damos to abolish Accursed slavery.

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We have a
funded PhD scholarship at on
'Water, drought and indentureship and slavery in the nineteenth century British Empire'. Further details at: https://t.co/B6aXvJQPQk

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Join us at 6pm tonight for a talk on research by Dr Susanne Seymour into Transatlantic Slavery's Long Reach and its impact on C18th estate gardens and parks in Britain.




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John Lavery 🖌️🤍💙
A Windy Day, ca. 1910.

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Don't you just hate it when there's cleaning to be done, but you've got other more important things on your mind.

It's why good little subs are so useful and worth keeping around.

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'Sir John Lavery' ~ David Wilson.

Wilson came to prominence for his work as a cartoonist to the Daily Chronicle and Punch among others. In December 1912 an article themed 'Belfast in London' was accompanied by caricatures by Wilson of prominent Belfast figures, including Lavery.

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Henry Rector, the pro-slavery Governor of Arkansas, ordered troops to seize the Marine Hospital and two steamers carrying munitions to the town of Napoleon in 1861. The action took place 2 months before the began, and 3 months before Arkansas voted to secede.

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Let’s all forget what happened with Lilligant and Whimsicott ok? They’re cool Pokémon with 0 correlations to slavery and slave ownership

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