Word: abolitionists
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...easy to see why the words of black critics and leaders, taken out of context, can be read as cynical renunciations of country. Abolitionist and runaway slave Frederick Douglass gave a famous oration on the meaning of Independence Day, asking "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer, a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim." But instead of joining the chorus of black voices swelling with nostalgia to return to their African roots, Douglass stayed put. Poet...
...fact, some slavery opponents may have suffered professional consequences for their political views. Germanic Literature Professor Charles Follen, an outspoken abolitionist, was fired by President Josiah Quincy III in 1835, an event that many blamed on his stance in favor of abolition...
...antebellum South. Through a chance reunion with a man that Rahman and his father once helped when he traveled in Africa, and the support of a local newspaper publisher, a campaign for his freedom began, and Rahman became one of the best-known faces of the strengthening abolitionist movement. He became so well-known, in fact, that he was a point of contention in the 1828 presidential election between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Early on, Adams gave Rahman his support, but Jackson used it against Adams politically and went on to win the election...
...this amazing truth that I had never shared," says Kneisley. In most ways a traditional sleep-away camp--her son loved canoeing--Camp Quest also taught Damian critical thinking, world religions and tales of famous freethinkers (an umbrella term for atheists, agnostics and other rationalists) like the black abolitionist Frederick Douglass...
...issue of rape while also discussing social attitudes towards female sexual behavior; the juxtaposition of the two creates what Ulrich calls a woman’s attempt to toe the line between invisibility and scandal. “Slaves in the Attic” discusses the coupling of the abolitionist movement with the suffrage movement. Ulrich’s originality is most evident in her portrait of “the four Harriets,” figures who reveal society’s varying levels of awareness of acts of female bravery. She demonstrates that courageous women can become...