Word: freedom
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...agricultural and management skills to turn its owner into one of the wealthiest men in the 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...
Eventually, in 1828, Rahman won freedom for himself and his wife, and began the journey home to Africa. He launched a campaign to raise funds to free his nine children, who remained enslaved, but never raised all of the money. He finally left for Africa, but just days away from his home, Fouta Djalon, he fell ill and died...
...inability to articulate not only the minor policies they advocate, but also the major ideals that they represent—or at least should represent—has real and pernicious political and social consequences. The bumper-sticker talking points of modern Republican stump issues—economic freedom, national security, family values—have, for several years now, dominated our national discourse and so demanded that any new policy justify itself in conservative terms that are inherently hostile to a robust progressive agenda...
...American, Latin American, and Oceanic art collections. The Fogg is the only museum out of Harvard’s three that is not devoted to a specific region, while the Busch-Reisinger houses Northern and Central European art and the Sackler houses Islamic and Asian art. Despite this regional freedom, however, the Fogg is still limited by various space constraints and endowments that come with stipulations. For example, the Winthrop Collection, the largest of several important donations, was given to Harvard under the condition that a certain portion be displayed at all times. Thus, the absence of African art exhibits...
...Vote Rock the Vote, popularized by MTV's 1996 "Choose or Lose initiative," began in 1989 with founder Jeff Ayeroff's first campaign, "Censorship is UnAmerican." Ayeroff, then an entertainment lawyer, wanted to protest what he perceived to be a wave of attacks on art and freedom of speech. (He would later work for Virgin Records and Time Warner, TIME's parent company). With numerous music and Hollywood contacts, Ayeroff was able to make voting look hip. By 2001, the organization had registered more than a million young voters. A number of celebrities have appeared in the group...