#abolitionists — Public Fediverse posts
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Master Slave Husband Wife
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.
#masterslavehusbandwife #ellencraft #williamcraft #africanamericanhistory #abolitionists #americanhistory #blackhistory #booklist #mybookshelf #books #pulitzerprize #biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.
#masterslavehusbandwife #ellencraft #williamcraft #africanamericanhistory #abolitionists #americanhistory #blackhistory #booklist #mybookshelf #books #pulitzerprize #biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.
#masterslavehusbandwife #ellencraft #williamcraft #africanamericanhistory #abolitionists #americanhistory #blackhistory #booklist #mybookshelf #books #pulitzerprize #biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.
#masterslavehusbandwife #ellencraft #williamcraft #africanamericanhistory #abolitionists #americanhistory #blackhistory #booklist #mybookshelf #books #pulitzerprize #biography
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Master Slave Husband Wife
The 2024 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography by Ilyon Woo that tells the story of Ellen & William Craft + their escape from slavery in 1848 Georgia. Ellen, whose father was a white plantation owner was enslaved by her half sister, working as a seamstress + house servant. William, her husband, worked as a hired out carpenter for his master. Ellen who was extremely light skinned disguised herself as a wealthy southern planter while William portrayed her slave in order to make their escape. The 1st half of this book is a gripping tale - the 2nd half however looses the thread as Ellen + William travel to England - their story gets lost amid the politics + the stories of other abolitionist who help them on their journey.
#masterslavehusbandwife #ellencraft #williamcraft #africanamericanhistory #abolitionists #americanhistory #blackhistory #booklist #mybookshelf #books #pulitzerprize #biography
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💔 Couples 💔
"If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."
A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #ottillieassing #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines #tragiclove
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💔 Couples 💔
"If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."
A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #ottillieassing #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines #tragiclove
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💔 Couples 💔
"If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."
A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #ottillieassing #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines #tragiclove
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💔 Couples 💔
"If one stands in so intimate a relationship with a man as I do with Douglass, one comes to know facets of the whole world, of men + women, which would otherwise remain closed, especially if it is a man whom the entire world has seen + whom so many women have loved."
A 20 year friendship between Frederick Douglass & German born feminist, freethinker, + abolitionist Ottilie Assing was to end in tragedy. After learning that Douglass had married Helen Pitts, Assing killed herself by swallowing cyanide in a public park in Paris. As per her will all her letters with Douglass were burned. She bequeathed him ongoing income from a trust fund + his choice of books from her library.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #ottillieassing #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines #tragiclove
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🩶 Couples 🩶
“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”
Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #HelenPitts #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines
Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing
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🩶 Couples 🩶
“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”
Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #HelenPitts #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines
Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing
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🩶 Couples 🩶
“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”
Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #HelenPitts #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines
Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing
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🩶 Couples 🩶
“Love came to me, + I was not afraid to marry the man I loved because of his color”
Frederick Douglass & Helen Pitts married 2 years after the death of his 1st wife Anna. He was 66 + she, 46. They married amid a storm of controversy. Both families objected to the marriage. Douglass’ children felt his marriage was a repudiation of their African American mother. Pitts' family, alrhough friends to Douglass + abolitionists, stopped speaking to her. The couple remained married for 11 years, until his death in 1895.
#couples #FrederickDouglass #HelenPitts #lovestories #valentinesday #lovestory #abolitionists #valentines
Helena is seated in the photo with her sister standing
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BBC: Writer’s poems helped boost the abolition campaign. “Letters written by a prominent abolitionist are being digitised, filling in a ‘massive bit of the jigsaw’ in the abolition campaign history, experts say. Novelist Hannah More, born in Bristol in 1745, also helped open some of the UK’s first schools for working class people.”
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What a nice surprise!! Right now I'm sitting on the train and on my way to an event as part of the International Week for Anarchist Prisoners.
There I find you here on Mastodon with the news of my release exactly two years ago. Later, at an event in Wuppertal, which is in North Rhine-Westphalia, I will talk about the prison term and the importance of solidarity.
I have been able to do this again and again in the last two years, and I have also held various workshops on 'How do I write prisoners' (it is important to me that it is about all prisoners, not just the political and anarchist ones).
In addition, I regularly attend trials, with a focus on class justice. For a small non-commercial radio, I then report on the court cases.
However, I would not have been able to do all this without the solidarity support. Neither would I have managed to survive the 27 years in prison, nor would I have been able to arrive in freedom in life afterwards.
#solidarity #prison #abolition #abolitionists #prisoners #freedom #prisonniers #anarchist #anarchistprisoners
#germany #wuppertal #NorthRhineWestphalia #nordrheinwestfalen #SocialJustice #classwar #courtwatch -
Why not roll back the #15thAmendment and #13thAmendment while they're at it!! WTF!
Secretary of Defense #PeteHegseth promotes repealing #WomensRightToVote
by Judd Legum
Aug 11, 2025"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, who oversees about 3 million military service members and civilian employees, reposted a video last week advocating repealing the #19thAmendment, which guarantees women the right to vote. The video is an excerpt from CNN anchor Pamela Brown's interview with #ChristianNationalist pastor #DougWilson, who Brown reports believes 'women shouldn't be able to vote.'
"Brown speaks to two pastors in Wilson's Idaho church who agree with Wilson. 'In my ideal society, we would vote as households,' pastor Toby Sumpter says. 'And I would ordinarily be the one to cast the vote.' (This is the model also advocated by Wilson.) Pastor Jared Longshore says he supports the repeal of the 19th Amendment because 'the current system is not good for humans.'
"Hegseth is a member of a church that is part of Wilson's network, the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches (#CREC), in Tennessee. When a CREC branch recently opened in Washington, DC, Hegseth attended. Longshore delivered the sermon.
"Hegseth's response to the video — 'All of Christ for All of Life' — is a Christian nationalist slogan used frequently by Wilson. It stands for the idea that Christianity should dominate all aspects of life, including government.
In response to media inquiries, the Pentagon reiterated Hegseth's admiration for Wilson and his ideology. 'The Secretary very much appreciates many of Mr. Wilson's writings and teachings,' Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said.Beyond repealing women's #VotingRights, what are Wilson's 'writing and teachings'? Let's review.
"Wilson argues that slavery benefited blacks and whites and was 'based on mutual affection'
"Wilson has sought to recast slavery in the pre-Civil War South as a mutually beneficial relationship in many cases. In a 1996 pamphlet co-written by Wilson, Southern Slavery as It Was, he argued that '[s]lavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity.' According to Wilson, '[b]ecause of its predominantly #patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence.' He asserts that "[t]here has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world,' which he attributes to 'the predominance of Christianity.'
Wilson claims that '[s]lave life was to [the slaves] a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes and good medical care.' He urges people not to 'overlook the benefits of slavery for both blacks and whites.'
"In Wilson's 2005 book, Black and Tan, he defends #SouthernSlavery as It Was, and writes 'that slavery was far more benign in practice than it was made to appear in the literature of the #abolitionists.'' He also claims that slavery was biblically justified, claiming that 'the Christians who owned slaves in the South were on firm scriptural ground.' "
Read more:
https://popular.info/p/slavery-patriarchy-and-pete-hegsethsArchived version:
https://archive.ph/GquRa#ChristianNationalism #ChristoFascism #WhiteSupremacy #USPol #HandmaidsTale #WelcomeToGilead #TheKnotsAndCrosses #Dystopia
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A Different Revolution
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/07/04/a-different-revolution/
There were two original sins that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin. By Ace Thelin Special to Consortium News It’s long past time Americans face the truth…
#Politics #AmericanEmpire #Books #CivilRights #Commentary #History #HumanRights #IndigenousPeople #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Abolitionists #AceThelin #ColonialRulingClass #FoundingFathers #GeraldHorne #GloriousRevolution #IndependenceDay #Maroons #NedBlackhawk #Shay’sRebellion #SlaveOwners #SlaveTrade #ThomasJefferson #WarForIndependence -
Replicas of Abolition Era posters have been going up in New Bedford after ICE agents have appeared in the city.
Proud of this City's history of welcoming and protecting refugees!
#newbedford #abolitionists #abolition #iceagents #kidnappers #history #ice #refugees #historyrepeating
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"They Can't Beat All of Us"
A Report Back from the #FloridaAbolitionistGathering#CrimethInc, March 15, 2025
"From February 28 to March 2, hundreds of #abolitionists and #anarchists from across the country converged in Gainesville for the first Florida Abolitionist Gathering (#FAG). Across a passionate weekend of #workshops, films, food, #debate, #ritual, and #protest, the contours of a robust regional #resistance movement came into focus.
"The #intergenerational, heavily #queer and #trans, and strongly multi-issue and anarchist group of abolitionists that converged in Florida articulated an expansive vision of #liberation anchored in the urgent need to dismantle the #PrisonIndustrial complex in all its manifestations. The gathering showed that even as liberals wring their hands about the death of democracy, scrappy groups of organizers continue to fight back—and sometimes win—deep within the belly of the beast."
Read more:
https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/15/they-cant-beat-all-of-us-a-reportback-from-the-florida-abolitionist-gathering
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This is a really good #book. I want to read more and follow more #abolitionists. I also want to remember that joy is importance to sustaining movements and all of us.
https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/8a4576b8-c738-4fa9-9cdf-ca9306feae33
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This is a GREAT article about an early american Abolitionist and his times. Thank you @jalcine !! (I'd never heard of this man. I wish I could read about his wife.)
#Abolitionists #Abolition #BenFranklin #Histodons #History https://todon.eu/@jalcine/113252419652530411
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When I read about abolitionist men the first thing I think is, how noble. Then I read about their wives and daughters who harvested, cooked, canned, wove, sewed and cleaned while their men waxed philosophical about freedom and morality and I wonder at how shallow their ideals were. #abolitionists #transcendentalists #freedom #slavery #misogyny #hypocrisy
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6 surprising #facts about the #DeclarationofIndependence
https://www.fastcompany.com/91147830/july-4th-surprising-facts-declaration-of-independence
The nation’s #founding document failed to achieve its most immediate goal, but in time #abolitionists and #feminists shifted its focus to #humanrights, transforming it into arguably the most consequential #freedom document ever composed.
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#abolitionists, decarceralists, you know anyone writing about the Ukrainian/Russian conflict and the release of criminals from prison if they join the respective war effort, looking through an abolitionist lens?
I've read texts on US prisons arguing that even the most serious criminals are needed on the barricades - with this being policy in the biggest global conflict, i'd expect someone to have analysed.
Boosts appreciated.
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Happy International #Women’s Day to the mothers fighting as #abolitionists 🖤
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Fascinating stained glass window (1877, Warren RI) about to be sent to Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis (and an interesting letter to the editor from 1877, as well as additional references on the website window.webflow.io )
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Join Arthur Torrington, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, and follow in the footsteps of three #Abolitionists #Sancho, #Equiano and #Gugoana walked in #Westminster in the 18th century. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equiano-society-walking-with-sancho-equiano-cugoano-tickets-741640816647 Saturday, 28 October, 1100 & 1300 #Windrush
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Join Arthur Torrington, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, and follow in the footsteps of three #Abolitionists #Sancho, #Equiano and #Gugoana walked in #Westminster in the 18th century. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equiano-society-walking-with-sancho-equiano-cugoano-tickets-741640816647 Saturday, 28 October, 1100 & 1300 #Windrush
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Join Arthur Torrington, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, and follow in the footsteps of three #Abolitionists #Sancho, #Equiano and #Gugoana walked in #Westminster in the 18th century. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equiano-society-walking-with-sancho-equiano-cugoano-tickets-741640816647 Saturday, 28 October, 1100 & 1300 #Windrush
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Join Arthur Torrington, co-founder of the Windrush Foundation, and follow in the footsteps of three #Abolitionists #Sancho, #Equiano and #Gugoana walked in #Westminster in the 18th century. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-equiano-society-walking-with-sancho-equiano-cugoano-tickets-741640816647 Saturday, 28 October, 1100 & 1300 #Windrush
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James McBride's book _The Good Lord Bird_ is a well-written & well-documented novel about this group of #Abolitionists
There's even an excellent Netflix adaptation! #EthanHawke gives the performance of a lifetime as John Brown
No excuse anymore for not knowing this history :BLM:
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3673480/mediaviewer/rm1961155329?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
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Lewis and Harriet Hayden House in Boston, Massachusetts
Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.#undergroundrailroad #womenshistory #kickasswomen #blackhistory #slavery #abolitionists #section-Atlas
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John Brown Memorial Park and Museum in Osawatomie, Kansas
Explore the cabin where the famed abolitionist once lived and the site where he fought the Battle of Osawatomie.#battlefields #undergroundrailroad #stateparks #history #parks #museums #abolitionists #abolitionsim #section-Atlas
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We're All In This Together: A Reportback from Our First Abolition Intensive
"Greetings from the Du Bois Movement School, where our heads are buzzing and our hearts are full after an incredible Abolition Intensive this past weekend. Over the course of three days, 60 current and future organizers across the city and as far afield as Atlanta and North Carolina joined us ..."
https://mailchi.mp/abolitionschool/dubois-school-of-abolition-12646482?e=9c36ed9191
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Presser is about to start.
No more deaths in custody.
At the Solicitor General's office.#PrisonersRights #TorontoActions #CommunityDefence #PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #Abolitionists #PrisonersJusticeDay
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@mekkaokereke
Thanks very much for introducing me to the story of the Nueces Massacre. I’ll be researching that starting with the decent Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nueces_massacreIf the #GermanAmericans who brought the #accordion 🪗 and German #beer 🍻 to #Texas were #abolitionists, that changes their whole story
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https://archive.org/details/slavery-and-the-french-revolutionists
Slavery and the French Revolutionists (1788-1805) by Anna Julia Cooper; Frances Richardson Keller
Topics
#slavery, #blackchattelslavery, #antiblackness, #frenchrevolution, #HaitianRevolution, #frenchempire, #frenchcolonialism, #frenchimperialism, #Haiti, #paris, #translatlanticslavetrade, #abolitionists, #abolitionism, #Martinique, #Matinik, #Matnik, #counterrevolutionThe first translation and publication of a 1925 doctoral dissertation written for the University of Paris by a 67-year-old Black amerikan expatriate woman who had been born a slave. Her study of the french revolutionists' view of slavery is crucial to understanding the growth of human rights.
