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you know who else were called "outside agitators" by the "moderates" of the day? john brown and other radical abolitionists, who sought to overthrow slavery and enact a radical reconstruction, an effort thwarted by "moderates" who instead enabled the rise of jim crow

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2020-05-31

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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2020-05-22

’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!

https://t.co/hJed6NAYiI

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2020-05-13

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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2020-04-03

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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2020-03-08

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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2020-03-08

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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2020-01-31

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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2019-12-03

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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2019-11-19

!!!!!!!!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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2019-11-06

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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2019-11-05

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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2019-10-30

(1859) - An armed band of abolitionists led by John Brown, launched an assault on the federal armory located at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now in West Virginia). It was a main precipitating incident to the American

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2019-10-17

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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2019-10-16

Today's Goodle Doodle in Brazil features the abolitionist and famous black female author and educator Maria Firmina dos Reis, who wrote the 1859 abolitionist novel Úrsula. The illustration celebrating her life and work was created by artist Nik Neves.

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2019-10-11

By 1820, most transatlantic empires in Europe had passed (at least partial) bans on their slave trades.
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2019-08-27

Granville Sharp (1735-1813) was the unofficial leader of the abolitionist movement in Britain. With the London Committee, he lobbied Parliament for 2 decades to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, ending the transatlantic slave trade in the

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2019-08-23

On , producer Jim Cooney and Richard A. Ruddy—author of EDMUND G. ROSS: SOLDIER, SENATOR, ABOLITIONIST—discuss the new documentary Freedom and Impeachment.

The film about Ross's life will air tomorrow on New Mexico PBS.

https://t.co/bzJXP2nYKL

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2019-07-10

Nigeria writer & slavery abolitionist Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797), once a slave himself, has his communicator legacy remembered. The new submarine cable connecting Africa's West coast with Europe will have his name. The Equiano Cable has 20x more network capacity than current one

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2019-06-29