Word: abolitionists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stauffer, who teaches classes on the Civil War and American protest literature, described his book as a “collective biography,” chronicling the lives of close friends Frederick Douglass, John Brown, James McCune Smith and Garret Smith and emphasizing their contributions to the radical abolitionist movement...
...focuses on music created by people of African descent, even though much of the world’s music has been created by this population, including jazz, spirituals, blues, gospel, rap, country, rock-n-roll, meringue, folk, samba, reggae, ragtime and calypso. The de-colonization movements in Africa, the abolitionist movements of the 19th century and the recent Civil Rights and Black Power movements in America have been powerful incubators for black philosophers, yet the philosophy department has not deemed any of these thinkers substantive enough to contribute to discussions of evil, justice, ethics, politics, or morals...
...there been more support from the great bastions of intellectual power—like Yale—there might have been change. Some at Yale, like those who defended the Africans on the Amistad, did lend their support to the abolitionist cause. But as an institution, Yale took money made from slavery, celebrated slaveholders and even pro-slavery politicians, and educated others to follow in those steps. While Ralph Waldo Emerson, Class of 1821, was telling students to reject outmoded ideas—like slavery—orators at Yale ridiculed him. In the wake of the Fugitive Slave...
...stage is being set for the next phase in the struggle for the leadership of black America. That struggle began in slavery, when the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass emerged as the first unquestioned spokesman for the African-American agenda. Over the decades, the battle to inherit Douglass's mantle sparked epic struggles, such as the early 20th century clash between the accommodationist Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois, the militant founder of the N.A.A.C.P. The most recent chapter played out in the early 1970s, when Jackson himself displaced Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest confidant, Ralph David Abernathy, putting...
...effective: one titled "Do the Ladies Run This" is marred by a bagpipe-like synthesizer instrumentation. Resemblances to Scottish folk tunes aside, Dirty Harriet is an outstanding album that welcomes Rah Digga to the ranks of hip-hop's elite. The album's title is a direct reference to abolitionist leader Harriet Tubman: let's hope that Rah Digga's debut guides a new breed of female rappers...