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Additionally, during the panel Nathanson compared murderer Hill to John Brown, the abolitionist who died trying to start a war against slavery a few years prior to the Civil War. While Nathanson said of people like Hill, "I consign them to the lunatic fringe," his comparisons of Hill to Brown makes Hill seem like a martyr for a cause that will soon draw the whole country into battle. In fact, Hill would see this comparison as a compliment. He proclaims from his website, "Now is the time to defend the unborn in the same way you'd defend slaves about...
Noting that abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke at Faneuil Hall, the vice president promised to combat discrimination and advocate for working class people...
Last Friday, 152 years after Frederick Douglass published the first issue of his abolitionist journal The North Star, the American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG) held a rally on the steps of the State House protesting modern-day slavery in Sudan...
...force was followed by Sena Naslund's Ahab's Wife, in which young Una Spencer goes to sea disguised as a boy and eventually encounters Melville's legendary whaling captain. Marriage and a child follow before Ahab goes off to chase Moby Dick and Una becomes a freethinker, abolitionist and, in time, Ishmael's significant other...
...Pankhurst's father was a Manchester manufacturer with radical sympathies. When she was small, she was consuming Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Bunyan and abolitionist materials; her earliest memories included hearing Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak. Her father was keen on amateur theatricals in the home; his daughter later enthralled the suffragists with her oratory and her voice. The young Rebecca West described hearing Mrs. Pankhurst in full cry: "Trembling like a reed, she lifted up her hoarse, sweet voice on the platform, but the reed was of steel and it was tremendous...