Virginia Right!

Should/Has abolitionist leader William Lloyd Garrison be pardoned by the State of Maryland?  I am researching this issue as we speak with an email sent to the MD Secretary of State’s office today.  But there is a bit of background: In 1830, Garrison co-edited a newspaper in Baltimore, MD that among other things supported abolition [...]

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I just finished watching The Abolitionists and I will say that it was quite good. I was pleased to see the centrality of faith in the abolitionist message but concerned about the treatment of John Brown.  He was portrayed in a sympathetic light.  But this is early – it is a three part miniseries so [...]

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I was researching this question when I found this at the Southern Poverty Law Center HATEWATCH: News of the Alabama passage heartened anti-ICLEI activists across the nation. The headline on one Virginia blog, for example, reads:  “VICTORY! ICLEI BAN PASSED ALABAMA LEGISLATURE! YEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Read it and weep, globalists!” The HATEWATCH was surely trying to protect [...]

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