The man who freed the slaves by Elsie May Johnson

His term is ending, but that doesn’t put out the fires he lit, that led to a violent attack by his deluded supporters. We’ve had a long “siege” under President Donald Trump, who fanned the flames of racial prejudice, white supremacy, bigotry. Senator from Georgia…but it took til now for that to happen, and it took activist Stacey Abrams and followers, with their campaign to register long-suppressed voters of color. Raphael Warnock will be the first black U.S. That freedom, obviously, didn’t create a level playing field and in 2021, there is still a lot of work to do. Perhaps his life work helped spur the abolitionist movement that much later led to qualified freedom for Black Americans. Mifflin took a lot of heat for his advocacy, and he was unsuccessful in the short term. As the leading abolitionist of his time, a century before the Civil War, he lobbied legislatures and George Washington himself to end the abominable practice of enslaving fellow human beings in the greedy pursuit of profit. Warner Mifflin, 1745-1798, not only freed his own slaves, he turned his life into a crusade to free all slaves.

And my personal story includes that one of my ancestors, a Quaker farmer in Colonial Delaware, was a slaveholder. History is not just “his story,” it is our story. Neither group was treated as fully human, as entitled to the same rights as the ruling whites, the U.S. Racism has reared its ugly head at the siege of the United States Capitol, and some are shocked and some, black Americans in particular, are not.Īfter all, our nation was built on genocide against Native Americans, and the enslavement of African people.

The man who freed the slaves by Elsie May Johnson