Slavery Abolition

Abraham Lincoln didn’t have Mathew Brady photographs when he spoke at Gettysburg. Winston Churchill didn’t show grainy World War II newsreels in 1941 when he addressed a joint session of Congress just 19 days after Pearl Harbor. Speaking to Congress by video link Wednesday morning, 20 days after Vladimir Putin…

WEBWIRE – Tuesday, March 15, 2022 The Haitian Revolution was a series of conflicts between Haitians, colonists, British and French colonizers’ armies, and other parties between 1791 and 1804. The Haitian people eventually gained independence from France and became the first nation established by former victims of slavery. However, the…

“With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed” It seems, Abraham Lincoln summarized the emotions of the crypto-market long back. While the king coin has been garnering a lot of investors’ interest of late, Ethereum looks complacent in this regard. Well, the painful gas fee could be…

Springfield, OH, March 05, 2022 --(PR.com)-- "I Am Passover: A Mindfulness Journey," by Ron Isaacs is now available on Kindle and for pre-order in the HGBM Shop. Passover, the Jewish festival of freedom celebrates the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. To commemorate the Exodus, a book called the Haggadah…

In ‘A Long Road to Justice’, author Sylvia Yu Friedman takes the reader on a journey through her decades-long investigation into Asia’s human trafficking underworld From run-ins with sinister mamasans to children sold as brides, what she saw forced her to confront the ‘generational trauma in me and just about…

She carries three names. The first, Sophia, is common. Its Christian meaning is “divine wisdom.” To Muslims, it means “beautiful.” Let’s think of her in these dignified terms. Her last name, Pooley, she took from the man she married in freedom. Pooley refers to a pond or a pool of…

JTA — It was a straightforward Israel question, typical of many recent political debates. “Would you please tell us if you would give unconditional support to protect and defend Israel if Iran attacks the Jewish state?” said the moderator at the debate Monday between Josh Mandel, a Jewish far-right Republican…

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel on Monday claimed that Israel was "the only country" in which "Africans were not brought as slaves," neglecting to mention that the Jewish state was formed in 1948, over a century after the Atlantic slave trade ended.  Mandel's dizzying remarks came in a Cleveland…

A new HBO documentary examines the life of American writer and abolitionist Frederick Douglass through his fiery speeches that faulted the nation's role in perpetuating slavery and challenged the U.S. to redeem itself. The big picture: "Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches" comes as some states pass restrictions on how schools…

April 4, 1865 Abraham Lincoln walked into the burning Confederate capital, uphill from the river, passing abandoned slave markets on his right, holding his son Tad’s hand on the boy’s 12th birthday. After four years of civil war, the president of the United States was in Richmond. Now he knew…