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I finished reading The Color of Abolition. I wrote a short bit in the Epilogue section on the document. It was a slog getting though the book for me, except for the last couple of chapters. I enjoyed seeing Douglass in action dealing with obstacles.
June 1, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Chapter 6: Frederick Douglass’s Escape

There was a Black network of support that Douglass had access to. Richard Allen's Mother Bethel Church in Philadelpha - a center for abolition. Allen's Free African Society lobbied Congress as early as the late 1790s
March 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Chapter 5: Frederick Douglass’s History in Slavery

Douglass's mother was moved while he was a baby. His grandmother cared for him until he was moved to house of his master, Aaron Anthony as a toddler in 1823. He was not worked but was hungry and cold.
March 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Enlightening how William Lloyd Garrison's mother managed to either take care or get care for her children during a depression after her husband left. I liked reading the details of his childhood experience.
March 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Look what I found!! I am so enjoying this. I use Hoopla through my library for some good reading, but I did not know they had music. This music was forgotten and it carries such powerful stuff for me.
December 28, 2024 at 10:28 AM
I love de Chardin though I barely understand him, I guess. This quote is making sense to me these days.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.
--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
December 17, 2024 at 2:57 PM