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@MxKantEven Nah, I'm a prison abolitionist. Carry on, ma'am.
Olympe de Gouges, a French playwright and political activist whose writings on women's rights and abolitionism reached a large audience in various countries, 1793, by an anonymous artist.
Langston Terrace honors #JohnMercerLangston (1829-1897), an abolitionist, founder of #HowardUniversity Law School, and the first black Congressman from Virginia.
FYI: #NoMorePolice: A Case for Abolition by @prisonculture and @dreanyc123 is one of @Kaepernick7's favorite recent reads!
You know you want to check it out and add it to yours, too: Pre-order your copy today! The book hits stores in 3 days: https://t.co/Yrh8fCvvbK
#OnThisDay 1816 a combined @royalnavy & @kon_marine Fleet under Admiral Edward Pellew & Vice Adm. Theodorus van Capellen, bombarded the African port of Algiers to enforce the abolition of Christian slavery. The ferocious battle was a success freeing 3000 Christian slaves.
Today, is International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition.
Around this time, 1791 (starting the eve of 22 Aug), Africans enslaved in Saint Domingue rose up, & fought against their enslavement by the French. This lit the spark for abolishment.
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The @antiuniversity festival programme on 10-16 Sept is now live with talks, workshops & experiments, covering everything from abolition to bodies, decolonising to rad birdwatching, as well as the usual mix of art, politics and resistance. Check it out on https://t.co/Wr9vn5vry2.
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Mary Prince - @elnorry_writer
Born in enslavement in Bermuda, Mary Prince travelled to England, escaped slavery and became a prominent abolitionist whose life story was the first of a Black woman's to be published in Britain.
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There’s a lot of concern over the future of #illustration in the advent of #AIimagery. Living the Line’s #TheAbolitionofMan is not a dismissal of those concerns, but an exploration of its potential in contrast to our potential as human #artists.
#Comics
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This is a really, really niche historical mystery but I have a strong feeling the black American man at the Eureka Stockade, John Joseph, was the missing son of famous black abolitionist Harriet Jacobs, Joseph Jacobs.
Unfortunately for the plan, Brown told Silas he didn't want to be rescued. He'd die for the cause & inspire abolitionists everywhere to rise up & destroy slavery. Silas was released from jail the next day. Silas' later attempt to rescue some of Brown's men had the same result...
What demands or changes get us closer to a future without courts and prisons and police and social control? Which ones build power and strengthen our abolitionist movements?
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This is precisely what is meant by “abolition of the state as state" (https://t.co/gyFOPf7kKn)
Frederick Douglass - (redraw) Limited Edition (5)
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American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
#Drawing #Portrait #Slavery #Reformer #Abolitionist #CivilWar @Procreate
I showed you Kerhatakaar Emenahet, as a kid. Now here's her as adult, and quite an accomplished one: successful revolutionist, scientist, and an abolitionist with impeccable fashion sense.
“Frederick Augustus Hinton, barber, abolitionist, early advocate for independent Black presses, & founding member of the Colored Conventions movement, was born enslaved in Raleigh, NC, to unknown parents.” https://t.co/ytznxtILP1
#InTheBlackFantastic at @haywardgallery explores African diasporic artists creating surreal sci-fi worlds— ft: Lina Iris Viktor’s ‘Eleventh’ (2018) which considers the Libyan Sibyl as abolitionist symbol; Ellen Gallagher’s ‘Watery Ecstatic’ (2021) imagines a mythic Black Atlantis