Word: abolitionist
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...enforce them. To it the President appointed three gentlemen: Edwin Seymour Smith, onetime newshawk, who became Massachusetts Commissioner of Labor & Industries; Harry Alvin Millis, head of the University of Chicago's Economics Department; and, as chairman, an able, energetic young lawyer who happened to be the great grandson of Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison...
Amid sobs from the congregation, the collection plates were heaped high with money to free the slave girl. Thereafter Henry Ward Beecher, zealous Abolitionist, continued to bring slaves into his Plymouth Church. This congregation had been founded in 1846 by three men who broke away, from the nearby Church of the Pilgrims. Inducing Henry Ward Beecher to be their preacher, they soon heard people saying: ''If you want to hear him preach, take the ferry to Brooklyn and then follow the crowd." Preacher Beecher stayed with Plymouth Church for the remaining 40 years of his life...
...Leaves of Grass into the fire. But he was soon to pipe a fiercer tune. Sacrificing his personal ambition to the cause of Liberty, he "knocked Pegasus on the head, as a tanner does his bark-mill donkey, when he is past service," and at 25 became an Abolitionist. Instead of eulogies from the critics he got rotten eggs and catcalls, more than once had to drop his dignity and take to his heels. Of his anti-slavery poems Biographer Mordell says: "They . . . are too dangerous to be introduced into the schools. They still breathe that 'blasphemy...
...glory-road for all Fisk Singers to come. Known as the Fisk Jubilee Singers they arrived in New York, reluctantly put spirituals on their programs and went to sing in Henry Ward Beecher's Church in Brooklyn. The first time he heard them Preacher Beecher, as ardent an abolitionist as his sister Harriet Beecher Stowe, sat down and addressed a letter to his parishioners: "Avail yourselves of a rare opportunity to hear a style of music rapidly passing away, music . . . sung as only they can sing it who know how to keep time to a master's whip...
...Cross, held fairs all over the country to raise money. For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Sculptor Rogers donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business...