Benjamin Franklin and fellow U.S. Founding Father Benjamin Rush helped create the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage. The name was eventually shortened to the Pennsylvania Abolition Society and Ben Franklin was elected president of the group. In that role, Franklin asked the U.S. Congress in 1790 to abolish slavery. It led to heated debate among lawmakers, but no action.

An illustration of a Black man (left) holding the hand of a white man A banner drawn at the top reads "Work & Be Happy" Image source: Pennsylvania Abolition Society

On this day in 1775, the first abolition society in the Americas was established.

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Black graphic with a portrait of Charles Elliott (1792–1869) beside a quote from The Bible and Slavery: “A slave is a person divested of the ownership of himself, and conveyed, with all his powers of body and mind, to the proprietorship of another.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Charles Elliott’s definition of slavery: a person stripped of ownership of themselves—body, mind, all capacities—transferred to another’s proprietorship. He doesn’t embellish. The question is whether tolerance for that erasure has outlasted the institution.
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Lee’s surrender effectively ended the Civil War, though other battles and surrenders took place over the next few months. The brief meeting between Grant and Lee produced two important pieces of writing, though, according to historians with the National Park Service, there is no formal surrender document. They wrote, “The surrender was conducted through an exchange of two short letters. Grant’s was a mere five sentences long and Lee’s reply was only three short, terse sentences.” These two letters became the model for all the surrendering Confederate armies, and the terms of parole for their soldiers.

An artist rendering of the surrender of Confederate General Robert E. Lee to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the front parlor of the McLean house at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865. Image credit and source: U.S. Library of Congress | photo by Associated Press

On this day in 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia. In the U.S., this is one of the most storied days of the 19th Century.

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Black graphic with an image of the title page of The Gospel of the Typical Servitude, a sermon preached in Greenfield, Ohio, by Samuel Crothers (1783–1856), Pastor of the Presbyterian Church. Beside it is a quote: “He instructs them by his word and spirit, and clothes them with his righteousness and feeds them with the bread of life, and protects them from all their enemies. Hence the disciples loved to call Jesus master. They gloried in the title, servants of Jesus Christ. They would not have exchanged it for that of Caesar. It humbled them, and cheered them and kept alive in their hearts a sense of their obligations to the Saviour who had done so great things for them.“​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Samuel Crothers: both enslavers and Jesus are called “Master.” But consider what Jesus gave those who called him that. Slavery didn’t merely oppress bodies—it poisoned a sacred word, turning a term of divine tenderness into something people now flinch to say.
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John Brown fierce and controversial figure in fight against slavery in the UnitedStates. Born 1800, he developed a deep moral opposition to slavery early in life, viewing it as a profound injustice that required immediate action.

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Today, in recognition of the UN recognised Slavery Remembrance Day, Wikimedia in Residence department celebrate inspiring people campaigning against modern slavery.

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arrived in Leeds and stayed with the Armisteads, recorded in the 1851 census as “fugitive slaves”. It also commemorates Henry “Box” Brown, who escaped slavery by posting himself in a crate For the full story of the Crafts see the Alt for their image. #Leeds #AbolitionistHistory
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Black background quote graphic featuring a portrait of Theodore Ledyard Cuyler (1822–1909), Dutch Reformed pastor. The quotation declares that harming enslaved believers is a crime against Christ Himself, asserting that abusing them is like scourging Jesus in the person of His suffering child.

Theodor Cuyler, Dutch #Reformed pastor in NYC, declared slavery a crime against Christ Himself. To abuse a believer is to “scourge the blessed Jesus,” for His people bear His image.
How would you treat others if you truly saw each neglected or wronged person as Christ’s representative?
#antislavery

The Germantown Quaker Petition against slavery from 1688.

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Why African-Americans Loathe 'Uncle Tom' Folklorist Patricia Turner discusses "Uncle Tom" — the lead character in the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe — as part of NPR's In Character series. The se...

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Folklorist Patricia Turner discusses "Uncle Tom" — the lead character in the #antislavery #novel " #UncleTomsCabin" by #abolitionist #HarrietBeecherStowe — as part of @npr.org 's In Character series.

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In the Washington DC area? Don't miss your chance to see author Cara Rogers Stevens at the American University Political Theory Institute, February 12, 5:30PM. She will be discussing her book Thomas Jefferson and the Fight against Slavery.

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“[Pro-slavery forces] are determined to repel this Northern invasion, and make Kansas a slave state; though our rivers should be covered with the blood of their victims, and the carcasses of the abolitionists should be so numerous in the territory as to breed disease and sickness, we will not be deterred from our purpose.”

A print of the last moments in the life of abolitionist John Brown, portrayed leaving jail on the morning of his execution in Charles Town, Va. Under heavy guard, he pauses to kiss a child. Image source: U.S. Library of Congress

You think things are bad now? Well, you're right. They are.
But look how pro-slavery writer Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow described abolitionists in the 1850s (this and other writings radicalized John Brown, executed on this day in 1859):
#Abolition #AntiSlavery #Politics

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In 1839, he co-authored the book American Slavery as It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. The author Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based her landmark novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin on Weld's text. Her father, Lyman Beecher, described Weld as “eloquent as an angel, and powerful as thunder.” Beecher also said that Weld’s words were “logic on fire.”

A b/w illustration of American abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld Credit: unknown Image source: U.S. Library of Congress

“Every man knows that slavery is a curse. Whoever denies this, his lips libel his heart.”
-American author Theodore Dwight Weld, born on this day in 1803. He was a strident abolitionist.
#WriterSky #BookSky #Abolition #AntiSlavery #History #OTD

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"As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism."
- Leo Tolstoy

Ingrid Newkirk is today's Lincoln.

#antifa #antislavery
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When people claim that the fulfilment of basic needs for all would destroy the incentive to work, they are admitting the entire capitalist system is based in coercion; that is a form of slavery ("work for us or starve"). Labour can never be voluntary in such a system.

Capitalism relies on slavery. That's why we should overthrow it. #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #antifascism #antifa #antislavery #slavery #activism #anarchism #socialism

When people claim that the fulfilment of basic needs for all would destroy the incentive to work, they are admitting the entire capitalist system is based in coercion; that is a form of slavery ("work for us or starve"). Labour can never be voluntary in such a system.

Capitalism relies on slavery. That's why we should overthrow it. #anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #antifascism #antifa #antislavery #slavery #activism #anarchism #socialism

Discover the real Cassius Marcellus Clay, antislavery reformer, fighter, and slaveholder. Historian Anne E. Marshall reveals how Clay’s story reshapes our view of America’s struggle with freedom and hypocrisy.

#History #CassiusClay #Antislavery #CivilWar #BookTalk

I got 3 different AI summary answers when trying to Google the first anti-slavery play in the US, all of which predated "Uncle Tom's Cabin" (1852). English scholars or theater or abolition historians, please chime in with your candidates!
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And what would the name of this affliction of humans be called right now?

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