National Abolition Hall of Fame
I just received this in email from brother Jon, who as I've mentioned before is the VP of the National Abolition Hall of Fame. HAHoF is trying again this month for a Pepsi Refresh grant for $250,000 to refurbish the Museum in Peterboro, NY and build a national outreach program. I thought I'd share Jon's email here, and once again extend a plea for folks to sign up and vote. Just click on the link -- there's nothing to purchase, and Pepsi is really good about not spamming. I've been voting for various projects for three months now, and have not been sent any advertisements, etc, in email.
Hello NAHOF Supporters--
Please remember to continue voting throughout the weekend! www.refresheverything.com/nahofm
Let's see if we can break into the 40s by Monday!
Tale of a Talker
So... Imagine that your folks are aristocratic 19th century Americans. They pay for you to attend Harvard Law School. They're proud of you and your accomplishments, and they are thrilled when you set up your Boston law practice in 1834. You are a tall, handsome fellow, and already a pretty well established orator with a wonderful and straight-forward manner of addressing an audience
About a year later, though, you are on Court Street and see a man nearly lynched. You make a few inquiries and discover that the mob had been after him because he had been speaking about abolition, of all things! You find the man that was willing to take a such a chance, one William Lloyd Garrison, and begin to ask him questions. You also meet the lovely Ann Terry Greene, another abolitionist, and inside of two years you are married, have given up your law practice, and are fully entrenched in the abolitionist ranks. Mom and Dad are horrified, and try to have you committed to an asylum, but you refuse to be dissuaded...and for your oratory prowess you become known as "abolition's Golden Trumpet."
So it was for Wendell Phillips...who spent much of the 1840s working with Garrison and other abolitionists, using "moral suasion" to convince people that slavery needed to be ended immediately.
Phillips once said: "To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship."
To be as good as these abolitionists, we must be better. We must be even more committed to equality, to treating each individual we meet as an individual...not as part of a group. What are we doing about it?
All the Best--
--Jonathan
Send a note to nahofm@gmail.com to join the daily reminder list!
Hello NAHOF Supporters--
Please remember to continue voting throughout the weekend! www.refresheverything.com/nahofm
Let's see if we can break into the 40s by Monday!
Tale of a Talker
So... Imagine that your folks are aristocratic 19th century Americans. They pay for you to attend Harvard Law School. They're proud of you and your accomplishments, and they are thrilled when you set up your Boston law practice in 1834. You are a tall, handsome fellow, and already a pretty well established orator with a wonderful and straight-forward manner of addressing an audience
About a year later, though, you are on Court Street and see a man nearly lynched. You make a few inquiries and discover that the mob had been after him because he had been speaking about abolition, of all things! You find the man that was willing to take a such a chance, one William Lloyd Garrison, and begin to ask him questions. You also meet the lovely Ann Terry Greene, another abolitionist, and inside of two years you are married, have given up your law practice, and are fully entrenched in the abolitionist ranks. Mom and Dad are horrified, and try to have you committed to an asylum, but you refuse to be dissuaded...and for your oratory prowess you become known as "abolition's Golden Trumpet."
So it was for Wendell Phillips...who spent much of the 1840s working with Garrison and other abolitionists, using "moral suasion" to convince people that slavery needed to be ended immediately.
Phillips once said: "To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship."
To be as good as these abolitionists, we must be better. We must be even more committed to equality, to treating each individual we meet as an individual...not as part of a group. What are we doing about it?
All the Best--
--Jonathan
Send a note to nahofm@gmail.com to join the daily reminder list!