En 2013, quand j'ai commencé à examiner sérieusement le rapport qu'on entretient avec les autres je me suis dit : "La tâche est vertigineuse mais ça bouge. De mon vivant, j'assisterai au moins à l'abolition de la en France."

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Nah, I'm a prison abolitionist. Carry on, ma'am.

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Abolition du travail salarié.
Abolition du temps contraint.
Abolition du "loisir".
(et vive le travail, en effet, sous ces conditions)

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abolition poster from 2020!

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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.

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Langston Terrace honors (1829-1897), an abolitionist, founder of Law School, and the first black Congressman from Virginia.

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FYI: A Case for Abolition by and is one of 's favorite recent reads!

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1816 a combined & 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.

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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 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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NEW

Mary Prince -

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.

https://t.co/HWDcSMMBKD

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There’s a lot of concern over the future of in the advent of Living the Line’s is not a dismissal of those concerns, but an exploration of its potential in contrast to our potential as human

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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.

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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...

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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?

Learn more: https://t.co/yaZyhHJIoA

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This is precisely what is meant by “abolition of the state as state" (https://t.co/gyFOPf7kKn)

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Frederick Douglass - (redraw) Limited Edition (5)
https://t.co/yEee0uxP5U
American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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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.

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“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

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at 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

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