#antislavery — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antislavery, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116635253137177844
Pope #Incognegro is doing his AfroCarib Haitian grandfather and Creole African American grandmother proud.
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Whittier HATED slavery...
So fallen! so lost! the light
Which once he wore!
The glory from his gray hairs gone
Forevermore!
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Oh, dumb be passion’s stormy rage,
When he who might
Have lighted up and led his age,
Falls back in night.—John Greenleaf Whittier, "Ichabod"
Whittier opposed slavery totally, though he wrote this about Daniel Webster, who at the end, decided to compromise with slavers, to preserve the nation.
#AntiSlavery
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Charles Elliott—Methodist Episcopal minister, writing on slavery with the clarity the subject demands—offers a definition. A slave is a person stripped of ownership of themselves: body, mind, all capacities, transferred to another’s proprietorship. He doesn’t embellish. He doesn’t need to. The question worth sitting with is whether a tolerance for that basic erasure of personhood has quietly outlasted the institution itself, in ways we prefer not to examine too carefully.
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Being #unemployed fucking rules, lack of #money sucks ass though, death to #capitalism and the hydra of #fascist ideologies!
#classwar #ausgov #politas #humanrights #antiwork #antislavery #fuckwork #eattherich #antifa
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William Cunningham, co-founder of the Free Church of Scotland, pointed out that while society may imprison or even execute criminals, that hardly justifies slavery. Equating punishment with lifelong bondage is not argument but tidying up a moral mess. The awkward question, then: when we see injustice today, do we merely explain it—or actually help someone escape it?
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Charles John Ellicott, Anglican bishop, notes Paul doesn’t smash slavery with a hammer; he slips yeast into the dough. Christianity seeps in, alters the taste, and—awkwardly for slavery—turns chains into contradictions. Christianized bondage becomes liberty. So which institutions are you quietly leavening?
#heaven #christian #theologymatters #antislavery #leaven #anglican
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James William Massie, Scottish #Congregationalist minister and missionary to India, argued that Christ’s mission in Isaiah 61—healing the broken-hearted and freeing the oppressed—must also mark His ministers. No one, he insisted, can rightly claim ownership over another soul. How can the church proclaim both spiritual and earthly freedom?
#antislavery #bible #rooted #theologymatters #reformedtheology
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Beilby Porteus—Anglican bishop and abolitionist—argued that moral blindness lets ordinary people justify cruelty as “just business.” Kidnapping and trafficking souls, he said, harms both victim and perpetrator, temporally and eternally. Christian faith calls us to recover conscience and remember our shared humanity. How might we help one another take eternal interests seriously?
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Charles Spurgeon, London Baptist preacher, urged real aid for a town hurt by its refusal to handle slave-grown cotton. Fine sermons and fiery words won’t feed the hungry or bind wounds—“words without deeds are chaff,” he cried. Citing Luke 4, Matthew 25, and the Good Samaritan, he pressed believers to act.
How will you give more than words?
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It would be nice not to be living in #poverty for once.
#ausgov #politas #classwar #anticapitalism #antifascism #antiwork #antislavery #fuckwork #eattherich
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To sum up. A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure.
George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London
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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.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/19/bbc-writers-poems-helped-boost-the-abolition-campaign/